Escalating project expenses and funding shortfalls blamed by Victor Park, KATU Staff Thu, April 17th 2025 at 4:12 PM Updated Thu, April 17th 2025 at 11:17 PM The Interstate 5 bridge linking Portland and Vancouver is seen Thursday, April 17, 2025, looking north from Hayden Island. (Victor Park/KATU) PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) — A civil engineering and business expert...
House Bill 1958 proposes $2.5 billion loan paid by tolls Thursday, April 10, 2025 Rep. John Ley for Clark County Today Are $10 each way tolls coming to the I-5 Interstate Bridge? A proposed substitute bill offered by Rep. Jake Fey (Democrat, Tacoma) would allow the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) to bond (borrow) $2.5...
I-5 bridge tolling is expected to bring in $1.1-1.6 billion, and the original legislation would’ve authorized up to $1.6 billion in debt. Now? Up to $2.5 billion. Author: Anthony Macuk (KGW) Published: April 17, 2025 OLYMPIA, Wash. — The start of tolling for the Interstate Bridge Replacement project is only about a year away, and the Washington legislature...
Drivers could be paying 16 times more each year to cross the Columbia River on I-5 Thursday, October 24, 2024 — Clark County Today John Ley For Clark County Today The average Washington state citizen pays $146.40 a year in Washington state gas taxes according to one report. Under the possible tolling scenarios under discussion by...
ByZach Fuentes Thursday, October 24, 2024 SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) — Get ready to pay more to cross seven Bay Area bridges. Wednesday a proposal was made for a toll increase that would affect the Bay Bridge, Richmond-San Rafael, San Mateo along with Antioch, Benicia-Martinez, Carquinez and Dumbarton bridges. The current toll is $7.00 and as of...
$2,400 Annual Tolls harm hard working families on both sides of the river October 3, 2024 In a recent segment of The Lars Larson Show, Lars Larson took aim at the skyrocketing costs of the Interstate Bridge Replacement (IBR) project, which has now reached $9 billion. Highlighting concerns about the addition of $2 billion for...
Tolling scams — one more reason to avoid tolling! Sep. 14, 2024 By Karin Price Mueller | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com Tolls are a fact of life when you’re driving in New Jersey and in surrounding states. E-ZPass is supposed to make traveling through those tolls a little easier, even if you don’t have an E-ZPass account or...
John Ley & Lars Larson talk about paying three times the amount borrowed for the TNB Borrowing $684 million from Wall Street and the payoff could end up being $2 billion. “We could have purchased 3 bridges for what we’re paying for the Tacoma Narrows Bridge.” This is because the state chose to borrow the...
Tolls could be three times the amount originally borrowed Thursday, May 2, 2024 — Clark County Today John Ley for Clark County Today Paying off a transportation credit card with tolling is expensive. Washington state’s experience with the Tacoma Narrows Bridge (TNB) is on track to spend nearly three times the amount originally borrowed. Tolling...
Urges the governor and state officials to kill these proposals permanently Monday April 15, 2024 By Congresswoman Lori Chavez-DeRemer Press Release, Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer (OR-05), who led the federal charge against tolling along I-5 and I-205 in the Portland metro area, released the following statement after Governor Tina Kotek announced her decision to halt the plans. “This...
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