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March 30, 2026

Core projects emerge as costs jump on interstate bridge rebuild

  • An RFQ is anticipated in the second quarter of this year to construct a new bridge with light rail and connections to I-5.
    • By SHAWNA GAMACHE
    Associate Editor

    Photo by Cacophony via Wikipedia [enlarge]
    The first span of the aging Columbia River Interstate Bridge opened in 1917.

    Updated cost estimates mean the Interstate 5 Portland to Vancouver bridge replacement project will likely move forward initially with what state officials are calling a “core set” of projects, namely rebuilding the bridge (with light rail atop it) and connecting it to the interstate. Other work, including planned improvements along a 5-mile corridor of I-5, would take a back burner.


     
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