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The CRC I-5 project is an engineering fiasco. The corrupt planning "process" is a secondary concern. ODOT/Wsdot have no intention of building the bridge as proposed. The project's first years 2004-2008 considered "single-deck" design. The CRC Commission of agencies (ports, counties, cities of Portland/Vancouver) abandoned that sensible design for "double-deck" or "stacked" inexplicably in 2009, probably because the lead agency Wsdot took Senator McConnell's oath to "not cooperate" with an "African American" President as consent to scuttle the project from the inside. Current ODOT director Kris Strickler was Wsdot project manager and Lynn Peterson was Wsdot director complicit this crime and coverup of what was terribly wrong with the design of the bridge and the interchanges.

The first double-deck bridge design revealed to the public in 2011 was quickly peer reviewed and widely condemned as "structurally unsound." The 3 double-deck bridge designs that followed were no better. The 4th design, still the LPA (Locally Preferred Option) can be considered "like balancing a bowling ball on a golf tee." The latest bridge design "stacked" is no less utterly absurd engineering than the others. A crime occurred in the process and the coverup of that crime is ongoing. The principal culprits are Kris Strickler and Lynn Peterson though no doubt many DOT department heads and elected officials are complicit. I recommend these two receive jail time for their villainous misdirection of the planning process.

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Without responses, it must be fair to reiterate, Isabel & Mercury crew, I am serious!
Crimes have occurred and criminality is ongoing, principally on the part of numerous DOT
agencies, municipal transit agencies, development agencies who think their Silicon Valley credos are unquestionable. Scenic Pacific Highway 99W should NOT be clearcut, nor 'widened' from 56- to 8-lanes, nor should I-5 be widened through the Rose Quarter, nor the Columbia River I-5 Bridge be widened as proposed. Strickler and Peterson are lying, incompetent, reckless servants to corporate power and these two must be removed from office. It's a matter of good governance that these two and Ted be required to retire. You'll thank me later.

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Crimes occurred. criminality ongoing principally on the part of DOT agencies, municipal transit and development agencies that think Silicon Valley credos unquestionable. Scenic Pacific Highway 99W should NOT be clearcut to 'widen' from 5- to 8-lanes, nor should I-5 widen through Rose Quarter nor across the Columbia River I-5 Bridge widen as Biden proposes. Strickler and Peterson are lying, incompetent, reckless servants to corporate power and these two must be removed from office. It's a matter of good governance that these two and Ted be required to retire. You'll thank me later.


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all of the time.

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