I-5 ‘Corridor Toll’ Proposed for Columbia River Crossing

well that means the 205 bridge will be bumper to bumper all day and night long.
BTW, fyi...the present Interstate bridge (as it's called) had a toll on it to pay the costs. As I recall, it was paid off and the toll removed sometime in the late 60's. Think it was 50 cents...which was quite a bit then.
But the 205 bridge didn't exist then.

 

I remember the toll booths being on the Interstate bridge when I was little. That was also when the Amusement park was still there and the pool was visible from the Freeway... A lot has changed on Jantzen Beach since then..

 

I'd forgotten about Jantzen Beach.
I worked on the midway one summer in the booth where you try and knock down the three milk bottles with a ball.
Three balls for a quarter or 10 cents each.
Also remember picking berries further east along the river east of the airport at Spada's Farms. Now it's all industrial buildings.
My family had a small farm further up 148th by glendoveer.
My how things have changed.

 

The mayor doesn't sound fair. Toll the ones that use the bridge. They are the ones that will use it in the future.

Reminds me of states that charge a school tax. Whether you have kids or not, you have to pay it.

I guess it's how you look at it?

 

Since when does the mayor of any city have jurisdiction over a federal roadway? If federal money is going into the project, then they may have a case for collecting tolls. Otherwise, they should get the money elsewhere.

A cost of 3.6 BILLION??? The Hoover Dam bypass is on track for a cost of 460 million. For almost 4 billion dollars, the #### thing better be paved in gold.

 

You'd have to understand the history of politics in Portand/Vancouver.
You're absolutely right. However, like Chicago, it's a political mess.
The 3.6B is so full of pork that they should name the bridge, "the puerco" bridge.
Both states are hoping to rake more than a billion each off the money to put to other projects.

 

When they put up the new Tacoma Narrows bridge, they went way over budget. Didn't take them long to raise the toll rate that they said wouldn't be raised for a couple of years. If you ask me, their money would have been better spent on another bypass around Seattle. But that wouldn't have put any campaign money in Gregoire's pocket. Just like the deal they made with the Indians for the new expanded Port of Tacoma. The Indians got a tax break on their casinos and the taxpayers got a rate increase and the Indians gave Gregoire a kickback to her campaign fund. You know she got something out of the Tacoma bridge from the California investors who paid for it, and probably will out of the I-5 bridge. That's how she got the name "Horse Trader". Sounds like the Vancouver mayor is jumping on the bandwagon. That's why I moved out of Wash.