Jobs and the Columbia River Crossing:
Over $150 million has been wasted on planning for a $3.6 billion bridge. Ms. Herrera Beutler is not a leader; she is a professional politician, who won't take a stand on light rail.
Herrera Beutler supports tolling.
Herrera Beutler did vote for "The Bridge to Nowhere" wasting $183 million.
Tolling on both I-5 and I-205 would be required. Tolling would have no end date. (RCW 47.56.830) (CCP Edit - Note: tolling on I-205 is, for now, anyway, forbidden by statute. That doesn't mean Oregon couldn't start it.)
Tolls could be as high as $12 per car.
65,000 vehicles per day could be diverted to I-205 due to tolling.
Solution: Jon Haugen would stop the wasteful spending and bring good paying jobs to the area by building an I-5 bridge we can afford. Jon Haugen is the leader we need, by saying: 'keep the current bridges, and build a new six lane bridge with no light rail and no tolls'.
These are the truest words I've seen this cycle.
Thanks to commenter "Haven" for setting me straight.
I do not agree with many of Mr. Haugen's positions. But killing the funding for this massive ripoff would, in my estimation, geometrically overwhelm any damage he could do by voting in Congress, just as his efforts to kill the funding for this rip off would repair much of the damage caused by Jaime Herrera's ineptitude and inaction.
You had it right the first time.
ReplyDeleteHe now has a new website, votejonhaugen.com, that never mentions the CRC under the issues page. The old site will probably be shut down soon.
The CRC scam supporters showed Jon the money.....
The site has since been modified and now contains this:
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Columbia River Crossing
We have spent over $200 million on a plan that the U.S. Coast Guard has said is not viable (the bridge is plan is too low over the river). The bridge at I-205 was completed in 1983 at a cost of $179.5 million, that should be our template. A supplemental, six lane, no light rail, no toll bridge could be built for less than $600 million at I-5 saving $3 billion. Leave the current safe bridges in place. If the citizen's of Clark County vote to build light rail in the future one of the current bridges could be ungraded and used for that purpose.