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The project team unveiled most of its remaining high-level design choices at a meeting on Thursday, including the number of lanes on the bridge.

The project team unveiled most of its remaining high-level design choices at a meeting on Thursday, including the number of auxiliary lanes on the bridge.

The revived effort to replace the Interstate 5 bridge connecting Portland and Vancouver took a major step forward Thursday morning when transportation engineers proposed a preliminary bridge design to regional politicians and stakeholders. Oregon and Washington leaders committed to replacing the interstate bridge in 2019, citing seismic vulnerability and traffic congestion. In a presentation to the project’s Executive Steering Group (ESG)—which is made up of transportation officials and politicians from both sides of the river—project...

[Phew! Putting these endorsements together takes LOTS of hard work—and that's on top of our regular excellent reporting. Show your appreciation for the Mercury with a small contribution, please, and thank you!—eds] Metro Council President Lynn Peterson The Portland Metro Council, whose reach extends over a three county region (Multnomah, Washington, and Clackamas), has its fingers in a lot of pies—land use, environmental concerns, and transportation, as well as running such venues as the Oregon...

The Locally Preferred Alternative is a high-level conceptual design that will fill in most of the remaining blanks about the project plan.