472 crashes in 5 years makes this the highest crash rate on I-5? But the CRC has been claiming that the I-5 bridge sees 1 crash a day on average.

@Reymont - "Most crashes on I-5 in Oregon". The numbers for the I-5 bridge are split between OR and WA, and I'd be willing to bet the majority of those wrecks are people trying to get on 14 in Vancouver.

Thanks for the coverage of this.

We need to take the air out of the tires of Vancouver commuter activists, bucket seat motor car ideologues and the highway industrial complex.

There is plenty of capacity North-South with the combination of I5 and I205 as well as I5 and I405. There is more capacity through Portland than the proposed CRC.

One suspects that this is a bone thrown to CRC proponents attacking Rose Quarter lanes as a "bottleneck". They would love to see I5 itself widened to 4 lanes from Vancouver to San Diego at a cost of a billion trillion dollars.

Most of these upgrades are unnecessary, costly and a developer's and concrete industry's wet dream. Yes, we need better bike access through the area. It should be on dedicated cycle tracks, separated from motor traffic. But this Frankenstein construction project is not the solution.

washington drivers suck.

i admit it... im starting to doubt my commitment to the dept of transportation

@Penny Pincher: The stakeholders were asked to vote either "1" if they supported the project, "2" if they supported the project but had concerns, and "3" if they had major concerns. The three people who voted 3 were the reps from Eliot and Irvington and a member of AROW, a progressive transportation group. Five people voted 2, but I didn't get all their names.

I'm sure these projected costs will remain solid over the "years" this project will take to finish. ODOT = Oregon Department of Outdated Thinking