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Interstate Bridge Replacement Program

Here’s how to make the $7.5 billion IBR project suck less

The bike facility is clearly inadequate and won’t attract riders unless key changes are made.

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November 13, 2024

Jonathan Maus (Publisher/Editor)

62 Comments


Oregonians struggle to comment on Interstate Bridge project due to ‘make believe’ traffic data

“How are we supposed to understand the environmental impacts when there’s nothing in there we can believe?”

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October 31, 2024

Jonathan Maus (Publisher/Editor)

88 Comments


New videos show what I-5 freeway expansion over Columbia River would look like

Released now that the project team has raised over half the estimated construction cost.

Interstate Bridge Replacement Program

October 15, 2024

Jonathan Maus (Publisher/Editor)

62 Comments


Catching up on the Interstate Bridge freeway project with Je Amaechi (Video)

What activists are thinking as we dive into the draft environmental impact statement.

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October 10, 2024

Jonathan Maus (Publisher/Editor)

11 Comments


Republican lawmakers say cyclists should be tolled, question bike lanes on new Interstate Bridge

Bad faith or not, these comments are disturbing.

Interstate Bridge Replacement Program

June 12, 2024

Jonathan Maus (Publisher/Editor)

55 Comments


Bike path among newly released visuals of Interstate Bridge megaproject

More visual goodies, but they only show stuff people tend to like.

Interstate Bridge Replacement Program

March 6, 2024

Jonathan Maus (Publisher/Editor)

47 Comments


A ‘mega’ grant for a mega-project: Feds give $600 million to the IBR

You know a project is expensive when a ‘mega-grant’ is just 8% of the total estimated cost.

Interstate Bridge Replacement Program

December 19, 2023

Jonathan Maus (Publisher/Editor)

39 Comments


Here’s how I-5 Interstate Bridge Replacement engineer says project will address climate change

He thinks it might end up lowering VMT and reducing emissions.

Interstate Bridge Replacement Program

December 7, 2023

Jonathan Maus (Publisher/Editor)

92 Comments


I-5 freeway ‘immersed tunnel’ model on display in Vancouver today

Advocates of the tunnel say the model ‘exposes false assumptions’ by IBRP staff.

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December 1, 2023

Jonathan Maus (Publisher/Editor)

43 Comments


Heated exchange with top Interstate Bridge project official resurfaces

It came during a meeting back in December that just surfaced online.

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July 12, 2023

Jonathan Maus (Publisher/Editor)

121 Comments


Pham files major amendment as politics around Interstate Bridge funding bill intensifies

McLain is a Democrat, but she is to the right of Pham when it comes to transportation policy. This fight over HB 2098 has defined that contrast more than any other issue.

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April 27, 2023

Jonathan Maus (Publisher/Editor)

29 Comments


New bill would tie Oregon’s hands to funding Interstate Bridge and I-5 Rose Quarter projects

The bill reveals desperation at ODOT and among their supporters in the legislature.

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April 20, 2023

Jonathan Maus (Publisher/Editor)

40 Comments


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