I read the May 14 Columbian online story “CRC close to mitigation deal with Oregon Iron Works.” The change of the height on a new Interstate 5 bridge affects this business.
There are so many issues with the new bridge and now it is even going to hurt shipping companies, and still a final bridge plan hasn’t even been produced. All this is just to add a lane or two and connect the freeways more coherently.
We have some traffic but isn’t an extra 10 minutes of commute time better than the nightmare of when the bridge is actually under construction or when it opens with a toll? Think about it.
The northbound bridge span was built in 1917 and expanded with a southbound span in 1958 to become the bridge we now know and love today.
