On and off ramps for the Interstate Bridge Project on Hayden Island, south of the Columbia River.Calling it just a “replacement” is PR gimmick to conceal all these elements of the project. But it also conceals where the real money is going: the reality is that the “replacement” of the two existing I-5 bridges, is just a small part of the project’s total costs—only about one fifth of the cost of the project, according to its own estimates.| cityobservatory.org
HB 2025 doesn’t fix the Oregon Department of Transportation’s financial problem—it makes it even bigger| City Observatory