Page 5 - Interstate Bridge Replacement Program News Today

Columnists: A ‘union only’ rule would diminish competition and greatly restrict the number of contractors and workers eligible to work on the I-5 bridge replacement.

INDEPENDENCE — Gov. Tina Kotek isn’t on board with legislative plans to commit $1 billion in state-issued bonds to replace the Interstate 5 Bridge connecting Oregon and Washington.

A bill authorizing tolling on the Interstate 5 Bridge is nearly to the governor.

A bill to allow tolling to pay for a new I-5 bridge is close to becoming law.

Kotek wants to use state-issued bonds for affordable housing projects and said the bridge project could tie up the state's bonding capacity.

Gov. Tina Kotek doesn't want to commit $1 billion in state-issued bonds to replace the Interstate 5 bridge between Oregon and Washington. 

Gov. Tina Kotek isn’t on board with legislative plans to commit $1 billion in state-issued bonds to replace the Interstate 5 bridge connecting Oregon and Washington.

U.S. Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, D-Skamania, is calling for federal spending on a program that would include funds for the Interstate Bridge Replacement Program.

A draft policy bill for Oregon’s $1 billion to fund the replacement of the Interstate 5 Bridge was released ahead of the Oregon Legislature’s Joint Committee on Transportation information hearing at 5

The Oregon Legislature is zeroing in on a pathway to supply the state's share of the funding, matching $1 billion that Washington pledged last year.