Interstate Bridge replacement will include major I-5 overhaul | The Story | Dec. 5, 2023

Dec. 4 on The Story: If and when construction gets going on a new set of I-5 bridges over the Columbia River, it won't just transform the crossing itself. The project could entail major overhauls for a total of seven interchanges in North Portland and Vancouver - accounting for as much as half of the project's anticipated $6 billion price tag. The designers behind the project say they have a good reason for spending so much money and time on the interchanges, however: Because the interchanges are so close together right now, they contribute to the congestion that so often plagues the I-5 crossing. As a result, they're trying to do whatever they can to space them out and make the vital stretch of freeway function smoothly.
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[@jhanson995]

we don't want light rail the crime train!!!!

[@wilsonlincoln280]

This entire project will bring crime into Vancouver. A giant freeway destroying views, adding noise and wrecking property values, creating multiple new places for homeless camps and light rail that will practically ship the Portland crime into Vancouver. This project is a 7-`10 billion dollar disaster and it comes with no net new capacity, just like the older Columbia River Crossing (3 through lanes only!) and like the Columbia River Crossing it adds tolls so there will be no real traffic relief and you will have to pay 5-10 dollars just to use what is likely to be a steep and congested bridge. This project is a disaster and this addition is even worse because it takes away the 2nd auxiliary lane for almost no saving but even more congestion! And as mentioned those crime trains will cross into Vancouver.

[@AtticusThings]

There is no evidence that public transit brings crime when new extensions are completed. You have nothing to worry about.