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The LPA Columbia River I-5 Bridge design as proposed is so absurdly engineered, it's doubtful that Wsdot/ODOT intend to build it. The main error is its "double-deck" configuration. A 5-lane in each direction "single-deck" design is a sensible option, but ODOT director Kris Strickler won't admit to egregious errors and lose his job as chief kiss ass to the business class, the most powerful being automobile-related. Strickler should be removed from office and face criminal charges "intentional misdirection of project studies" and "willful concealment of pertinent information from the public.

Single-deck designs were studied 2004-2008 but abandoned for double-deck when Senator McConnell swore an oath to "not cooperate" with the Obama administration. The commission lead agency, Wsdot, took that oath as "consent" to scuttle the project by proposing 4 consequtive bridge designs between 2009-2013 that could not be built, the last of the 4 being the current LPA.

Note that "single-deck" bridge designs locate the transit/ped/bikeway span on the same level adjacent to the southbound span, in effect creating an emergency access corridor. "We don't need no stinking emergency access corridor heir Strickler chortles while licking his fangs at the prospect of accident victims dying. In an accident, MAX light rail trains would halt, but buses (an extension of the Vancouver BRT line) could steer around stopped emergency vehicles.


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