• What's supposed to happen once the traffic reaches Oregon and Portland?
• What will happen when an incident closes one of the spans?
How will it reduce out-of-direction travel?
• Consider alternatives, including bracketing local spans, bridges elsewhere
• Need to be careful with private bridges so public gets a fair deal
• But private bridges might be doable given number of entities, stating from scratch
• NE 33rd (wide, non-residential street) to opposite Grand good bridge location
• Interstates should be designed for longer-distance travel, not mall access
• Fiscal responsibility is tearing down infrastructure as a last resort
• If it is for freight, where are the freight-only lanes?
Goal of the project should be to provide transportation, not build a big new bridge
Wrong to consider fixing the adjacent railroad bridge (so barges can use hump rather than lift span) "outside the project scope"
Even the new Woodrow Wilson bridge on the Capital Beltway has a lift span; I believe one politician actually asked why not buy the company a second crane barge to keep on the other side rather than having the bridge lift for it