[zilfondel]

^^^ Snowden, the $6 billion bridge plan is to include the exact same number of through lanes that currently exist: 3 in each direction.

It won't add any capacity on the bridge itself. Part of the money, however, was to be used to rebuild all of the freeway interchanges and approach ramps on both sides of the river... I think I remember hearing that alone would take half the money.

However, the flip side to this is that all the congestion would merely move south to the Rose Garden I-84 interchange area anyway, while dumping another 30,000+ cars each day onto North Portland surface streets.

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Also, the complaints are coming from Multnomah County, PDOT, city of Portland, the Mayor, and citizens - both residents of NoPo (traffic) and people all over the state of oregon who don't want to pay $3 billion for something that won't benefit Oregon very much at all.