Imagine if state Highway 500 hadn’t been built — traffic on Fourth Plain Boulevard would be a nightmare. It’s the same thing now with Interstate 5; we need two more bridges — one off 192nd Avenue and Mill Plain Boulevard, to tie in to Gresham, Ore., and another, with traffic from Woodland, alongside the railroad bridge, to connect south of the I-5 Bridge.
The only way to get this done is through Sens. Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell, D-Washington. They seem to be the only people in Washington’s government who get things done.
I suggest we give the job to Kiewit Corporation — lock, stock, and barrell. We would have two bridges in five to seven years. No $150 million studies, no bull. Of course there would be tolls but, at $2 each way and that amount of traffic, it may be paid in 10 years.
Every day, people traveling between Washington and Oregon suffer. Get it done!
