Making rich riverfront condo residents breathe toxic air is perverted equity. The Guardian theguardian.com/environment/20… “Years of breathing traffic pollution increases death rates, study finds.” Port of Vancouver USA City of Vancouver, Washington Fort Vancouver

WSP is IBR’s General Engineering Consultant (GEC) WSP’s website touts their highway & bridge experience with a nightmare graphic of an elevated highway claiming to “rethink” commuter travel. IBR is buying “rethink”. WSP intentionally disqualified an Immersed Tunnel solution.

Seattle’s Sound Transit stations have created thousands of new housing units. IBR plans freeway Park & Ride stations that will be ugly, noisy, and not attract housing or pedestrian traffic. Parking will increase damaging commuter traffic to downtown Vancouver and increase VMT.

The IBR is fulfilling General Motor’s 85-year-old dream.

A 2,700-foot I-5 Immersed Tunnel can be built in half the time of IBR’s Bridge. Uminomori Tunnel, Tokyo Port 2020 is Japan’s 29th earthquake resilient immersed tunnel. It was built rapidly for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics by using four fabricators for sandwich steel-concrete segments.

IBR Exaggeration? After examining seismic risk maps of WSDOT and the WA Dept. of Natural Resources, the IBR has reduced its estimated threat of an I-5 Bridge collapse. The IBR now claims a "Godzilla" threat to justify a new bridge and $250 million demolition of existing bridges.

Caption Contest Can you believe some crazy citizens want to build a tunnel and save current bridges? They claim a tunnel will save Vancouver’s riverfront & Fort Vancouver. Also claim repurposed bridges can be used for walkers, bikers, local traffic, or future light rail if needed

IBR is using poorly designed bridge example to scare & mislead the public. Bandai Bridge, icon of Niigata, survived the 1964 Niigata Earthquake by learning from the Great Kanto Earthquake. Poorly designed Showa Bridge was completed and collapsed in 1964.

Video explains the benefits of an Immersed Tunnel. Less impact than IBR’s bridge and long elevated approaches. Faster and safer to build. The Most Implausible Tunneling Method youtu.be/jPJCYrxqyT8?si… via YouTube

Another delay for higher IBR costs City Commentary cityobservatory.org/another-delay-…

Letter Clark County Today: "This unnecessary deadly design is criminal negligence" clarkcountytoday.com/opinion/letter… Secretary Sean Duffy FMCSA Federal Highway Admn 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐨 𝐋𝐢𝐢𝐚𝐬 🏳️‍🌈 Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez Port of Vancouver USA Port of Portland Portland Bureau of Transportation

Opinion: The elephant in Hearing Room A clarkcountytoday.com/opinion/opinio…

The ODOT accountability charade "the $7.5 billion I-5 Bridge Replacement Project is more than a year late produce a new higher cost estimate, which is purposely being delayed until well after the legislative session."  cityobservatory.org/the-odot-accou…

Oregon lawmakers release full bill for statewide transportation package The IBR question kgw.com/article/news/p…

Do the folks have it right, or Administrator Johnson?

IBR is delaying bad news estimate, $9 billion plus. HB 2025: Fiscally irresponsible, feeding the megaproject machine – City Observatory cityobservatory.org/hb-2025-fiscal…