Tag / interstate

by Adron

Portland Removing Interstate I-5 Redundancy!

Wouldn’t it be great if Portland removed the redundant part of I-5 right here. It would be an extreme minimal impact to anybody driving in the area but it would be a MASSIVE boon to the city itself, being able to remove a vast and expensive section of the interstate that is devaluing what ought to be a multi-billion dollar segment of river front property! What’s your thoughts?

I’d love to see I-5 just ripped out between point 1 and 2 on the map. It’d be easy to do and the capacity issues with the two merges at that point would be removed too, it’d just become seamless turns and instead the state and feds responsible for I-5 could stop wasting Portland’s time and money and instead focus on the other connection point of I-84 and I-5 that has, would, and continues to this day to exist in north Portland.

by Adron

CRC Idea Replacement

This is one of the better ideas I’ve seen about the CRC / I-5 Bridge & Congestion Problem between Portland, Oregon and Vancouver, Washington. The respective DOTs need to pay attention and stop screwing around with that insanely stupid CRC idea. Most people hate it, and if they like it, they just haven’t thought about the better ideas very much. You’d have to have your head somewhere very uncomfortable to think the CRC – vastly expanded yet no additional throughput Interstate lanes – would actually help Portland or Vancouver.

This idea however, helps vastly more than just the theoretical. This idea helps the railroads, the drivers, the transit users, the river boats, and more.

<iframe src=”http://player.vimeo.com/video/22915646?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0&#8243; width=”400″ height=”300″ frameborder=”0″></iframe><p><a href=”http://vimeo.com/22915646″>A Common Sense Alternative to the CRC</a> from <a href=”http://vimeo.com/user1572838″>Spencer Boomhower</a> on <a href=”http://vimeo.com”>Vimeo</a&gt;.</p>