Following an update on financial plans for the Columbia River Crossing Thursday, its director, Nancy Boyd, said that estimates that construction will start in 2013 are “optimistic.”
The project, projected to cost $3.1 billion to $3.5 billion, relies on funding from local tolls, Oregon and Washington and the federal government — and it’s not likely all those pieces will fall together by then, staff reports to the CRC’s Project Sponsors Council predicted.
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