The Interstate “bridge replacement” gets marketed primarily as a project to serve cyclists and pedestrians. But its really about widening five miles of freeway, ostensibly to move 180,000 cars a day, something you’d never know by looking at project renderings.| City Observatory
Oregon and Washington have commissioned not just one forecast of future traffic levels on I-5 and I-205, but three different forecasts.| City Observatory
Traffic levels are going down on the I-5 bridges connecting Portland and Vancouver, even as the Oregon and Washington Transportation Departments are proposing a massive expansion that could end up costing $10 billion.| City Observatory