No Rex, what's stupid is you pretending to be a "green" politician while supporting global warming-inducing transportation policies that subsidize single-occupancy vehicle commuting from Vancouver into Portland. Really stupid.

It was "stupid" to commit that much money to a project with so many flaws and so little public support.

What is "sensible" and "pragmatic" now is to go back to the drawing board to find a smarter, affordable bridge design that helps advance regional transportation and environmental goals while improving the commuting experience through better bike infrastructure and a light rail connection.

1) Rex is stupid.
2) What is really stupid is to commit to $4.2B because otherwise you have to admit the $80M was wasted. It is that sort of thinking that has kept us in Iraq and Afghanistan. However, see #1.
3) They aren't advocating throwing everything away anyways, or at least not until they "flesh out that idea for a little while." See #1.

I was at the towards car free cities conference last year and Rex was one of the speakers at lunch time. Unlike the other speakers which were quite good, people generally ignored his speech and just talked to each other. That was until QA time when someone asked pretty much why they'd even bothered to invited him to speak at the conference at all given his support for the CRC, and the audience cheered.

"towards car free cities conference" Man, I wish I'd heard about that one. Would have started a fire and barred the door.

Two questions:
1) Would any of these five groups advocating a new study perhaps hope to be involved somehow, maybe get a bit of that $4 million? Hmmm, I wonder.

2) They know the results they want, why spend $4 million on a fake study? Just sit down and write it themselves this weekend? There's been $80 million in studying and planning, but since that returned the wrong facts, we should just keep trying until we get the "facts" we want, right?

What I want more than anything is for someone in Salem or Olympia, who are paying vastly more for this project than Portland, to tell self-important local little fleas to STFU because they have zero influence and their views are infantile and irrelevant.

"You really really like bikes? That's cute, dear. But the grown-ups are talking about how interstate commerce works. Why don't you go organize a fun ride with your little friends? Then meet up at HUB to play your little 'we're changing the world' make believe game."

Interstate commerce is great, but funding sucks are less so. Another study seems like throwing good money after bad at this point. Vancouver isn't going to support a toll, and, short of burning the whole joint down, we cannot force them to not want to work here.

I'm sure there will be other bridge projects in the future, but it's time to pack this one in and focus on the bridges we have now, which are not in especially good shape.

**Check out #82, someone at Google has a serious sense of humor.

Driving directions to Seattle, WA
14,351 km – about 36 days 9 hours
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1. Head north on 正义路/正義路 toward 东长安街/東長安街
0.4 km
2. Turn right at 南河沿大街南口 onto 东长安街/東長安街
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3. At 东单/東單, continue onto 建国门内大街/建國門內大街
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4. Continue onto 建国门外大街/建國門外大街
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5. Slight right to merge onto 东三环中路/東三環中路
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6. Continue onto 东三环南路/東三環南路
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7. Take exit 京塘高速公路/北京經濟技術開發區-京塘高速公路/北京经济技术开发区 to merge onto 京津塘高速
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8. Take exit 京津/京沪高速Ｇ２/天津西/上海-京津/京滬高速Ｇ２/天津西/上海 toward 京沪高速/京滬高速
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9. Keep right at the fork to continue toward 京沪高速/京滬高速 and merge onto 京沪高速/京滬高速
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10. Take exit 连云港/徐州-連雲港/徐州 toward 连徐高速/連徐高速
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11. Keep right at the fork to continue toward 连徐高速/連徐高速 and merge onto 连徐高速/連徐高速
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12. Take exit 日照/灌云-日照/灌雲 toward 沿海高速
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13. Keep right at the fork to continue toward 沿海高速 and merge onto 沿海高速
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14. Take exit 沿江高速/董浜 toward 沿江高速
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15. Keep left at the fork to continue toward 沿江高速 and merge onto 沿江高速
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16. Continue onto Ａ５公路
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17. Take the exit toward Ａ３０公路
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19. Take exit 同济路/宝钢-同濟路/寶鋼 to merge onto 富錦路/富锦路
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21. Take the 1st left toward 同济路/同濟路
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22. Turn right at 同济路/同濟路
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24. Slight left to stay on 同济路/同濟路
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25. Take the 3rd left onto 双城路/雙城路
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26. Turn right at 塘后路
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27. Take the 2nd left onto 塘后支路
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28. Jet ski across the Pacific Ocean
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30. Continue straight onto 県道350号線
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31. Turn left at 県道349号線
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34. Take the 串木野~里~中甑~鹿島~長浜 ferry
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40. Turn right at 串木野駅（交差点） onto 国道3号線
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41. Turn left to merge onto 九州自動車道
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42. Continue onto 関門橋
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43. Continue onto 中国自動車道
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44. Take exit 山口ＪＣＴ toward 山陽道・広島・大阪
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45. Merge onto 山陽自動車道
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46. Take exit 有料道路大竹ＩＣ to merge onto 広島岩国道路
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47. Take the ramp on the right to 山陽道・広島・大阪
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48. Merge onto 山陽自動車道
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49. Take exit 神戸ＪＣＴ toward 中国道・西宮北・大阪
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53. Take exit 草津ＪＣＴ toward 新名神・東名阪・草津田上・名古屋
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54. Merge onto 新名神高速道路
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55. Take exit 亀山ＪＣＴ toward 東名阪道・伊勢湾岸道・鈴鹿・名古屋・豊田
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56. Merge onto 東名阪自動車道
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57. Take exit 四日市ＪＣＴ toward 伊勢湾岸道・豊田
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59. Take exit 高速飛島ＩＣ to merge onto 伊勢湾岸自動車道/名港トリトン
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60. Take exit 豊田ＪＣＴ toward 東名・名古屋・静岡
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62. Continue onto 首都高速3号渋谷線 (signs for 首都高速)
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74. Keep right at the fork, follow signs for 土浦・霞ヶ浦 and merge onto 国道354号線
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75. Turn left at 中村陸橋下（交差点） to stay on 国道354号線
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77. Turn right at 亀城公園北（交差点） onto 国道125号線
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92. Merge onto HI-99 N/Kamehameha Hwy/State Hwy 80
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94. Turn left at Kuilima Dr
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96. Kayak across the Pacific Ocean
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99. Turn right at N 45th St
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101. Take the ramp on the left onto I-5 S
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102. Take exit 165A-165B toward James St/Union St
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Seattle, WA

When people realize that the bridge isn't the problem, maybe something good will happen. The problem lies with I-5 through Portland. Fix that, and guess what, what's left will be inconsequential. Until then, you can keep throwing money at the bridge, and nothing will improve. All you people who complain about Washingtonians working in Oregon should stop and realize how much is paid to Oregon every year in income taxes by the Washington workers.