Funding Collapses for $3.6B Columbia River Crossing

摘要

Funding problems have brought down a planned 10-lane, $3.6-billion project for a Pacific Northwest Interstate 5 bridge that included a replacement span over the Columbia River, connecting Portland, Ore., with Vancouver, Wash. Washington state lawmakers failed to pass a $10-billion transportation package as part of a new two-year budget, which included funding to keep the Columbia River Crossing project going. In light of this, Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber (D) scrapped the project, a decade-old plan that had nearly 100 employees working on it and already cost $170 million.