It's ridiculous that Portland thinks it can dictate this sort of nonsense to the rest of the country.

This is US TAX dollars, not city/county tax dollars.

The usual Portland stupidity, America's Beirut.

Keep penalizing the average Joe for having a car, god, I can't believe this city sometimes!

Sir Al M:

You must not follow the news, or, perhaps you only watch Faux News.

Heads up, now, this fact is coming at you pretty dang fast so you must pay attention: We're out gas.

That's the stuff that you put in your car so you can drive back and forth from your parent's house and the tavern you frequent.

And just to clarify, the Feds are offering this money to us. If we don't take it, some one else gets it. The government will spend this money one way or the other. The will not put it back in your pocket.

Please stay at home in Van-tucky and leave us alone.

I remain your humble servant,

Jacomus

P.S. I may be a village idiot, but at least I'm not a mis-informed horse's ass.

Sir:

An afterthought:

Is "Al M" some sort of Arab moniker? Should we be turning you over to someone, say Domestic Security or the FBI or the Girl Scouts or some such organization?

N.B. As you probably don't read or speak Latin, d'Paganus-Fatuus is a sort of pidgen-Latin mixed with French, and it means: the Village Idiot.

Also, N.B. is a short-hand way of saying: Noto Bene, again in Latin, which roughly translates as "please note."

I explain these items as I do not want to cause you more confusion or embarassment over the obvious baseness of your education, or as they say in Van-tucky, "edication".

I remain your humble servant,

Jacomus

Monsieur Jocomus,

Do I detect some small hostility?

I suggest you seek professional help to get a better handle on these outbursts of hostilities.

It seems to me, just a humble horse's ass, that we are on the same side here, build the bridge.

Now, when a horses ass communicates with the village idiot, there might possibly be miscommunication.

Faut péter dans l'eau pour faire des bulles.

BTW monsieur Jocomus

Ferme ta bouche quand tu parle!

Pauvre con!

Sir:

I note you do not dispute the facts stated in my commentary. Rather, your response is ad hominum. How provincial.

I remain your humble servant,

Jacomus

Excusez-moi Monsieur Jacomus d'Paganus-Fatuus, je fogot de mentionner, mon collège sont de degrés University of Massachusetts and Antioch College.

Pas complètement stupide que vous voyez.

Vous voir encore, je suis sûr!

As fuel and carbon charges increase trucks will be leaving the highway as the only economic way to move freight distances is rail and barges. Only local trucks will be on the I-5 when the new bridge opens in 10 years.

The carbon tax world is back to the 1940's for transport.

How did the 205 get its funding? I don't remember a toll on the I-5 to pay for that bridge. Why not repeat or at least look in to that plan before forcing increased taxes and tolls to pay for the new I-5.

Also, gas may be dying out as a fuel source, but that doesn't mean people won't drive. Once more eco friendly fuel sources are available like electric, and hydrogen people will drive even more. It's silly to think we can't develop these technologies and short sided to think we won't need the lanes in the future.

If they do toll the bridges, then they should toll the pedestrian and bike paths as well. ALL the people who use the bridges should pay for the bridge.

The energy to build the light rail portion will take energy, lots of energy. It won't be a green building project. It's not fair to say that cars are not eco friendly when it will take about 40 years to off set the energy and carbon footprint of the light rail construction.

We all want more transportation options. Light rail, bus, bike, ped, and car should all be given top priority. The car people are not served by the current public transportation options. It's not fair to impose limitations on them or ask them to pay for all the other pet projects.

Vancouver's city counsel and mayor need to be very careful on how they fund this new bridge. It may cost them a future election.

Sir:

Your commentary failed to include natural gas, a resource we appear to have in some abundance in N. America. Mr. T. Boone Pickett suggests natural gas as an option for vehicles, transitioning to wind power for electrical generation. N.B. Mr. Pickett has and is investing heavily in "wind farms," thereby protecting his position.

Charging tolls to all users is certainly democratic and preferable to placing the load on just one class of user. The only concern here is devising a suitable toll to charge the ghost seen crossing the current bridge North to South some evenings.

I remain your humble servant,

Jacomus

If your my humble servant than please get me a beer!

Al M

"Charging tolls to all users is certainly democratic and preferable to placing the load on just one class of user."

Are you actually putting forth the argument that it is "fair" to charge the working class laborer who makes 9.50 an hour the same amount to cross that bridge as it is to charge the executive making 150k a year?

TOLLS HURT THE WORKING CLASS!

NO TO TOLLS!

NO TO ANY NEW TAXES!