The Interstate 5 Bridge was built for I-5 traffic many years ago. Now we can’t take these two bridges and make them big enough for today’s traffic by widening them, can we? What we can do for today and tomorrow is to build a new bridge or two to accommodate our future traffic needs. Will our population stop growing? No! Will traffic get worse? Yes!
Where do we go from here? We start with federal infrastructure funds with public and private investment. We build a new bridge at Southeast 192nd Avenue south to I-84, north to Battle Ground to loop around to I-5 at Woodland or Longview. It will take more than five years before this will be opened. Why are we waiting?
The governors of Washington and Oregon got elected to solve this problem. We the people need traffic relief now. Our tax money is paying them to get this done.
