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Lawmakers in Washington had floated the idea of funding their share of the bridge project this year.

"It's big, it's bold, it's what America needs," Oregon congressman Earl Blumenauer said about the plan. "It's earth-shaking. It deals with broadband, it deals with bridges and sewers, what's going to happen in terms of the electrical grid." To pay for the plan, president Joe Biden would reverse the Trump Administration's lowered corporate tax rate of 21%, upping it to 28%. "It's a plan that puts millions of Americans to work to fix what's broken in this country," Biden said. The bill would create thousands of construction and manufacturing jobs, including some in the green energy sector. Mill...

The program will replace the I-5 bridge across the Columbia River between Oregon and Washington. Author: Chris McGinness Updated: 7:04 PM PST March 9, 2021 PORTLAND, Ore. — The words "equity" and "inclusion" have been on many people's mind in the last year. The man heading the Interstate Bridge Replacement Program must make sure those words have meaning, and he’s got unique perspective to guide him. Greg Johnson has nearly 40 years of engineering experience with state departments of transportation. By that mark alone, one might think he's already qualified ...

Train and transit ridership decline especially in COVID-19 era A Portland-to-Seattle to Vancouver, BC high speed rail line took another small step forward last week.  Washington, Oregon, and British Columbia are studying how ultra-high-speed ground transportation might serve the Pacific Northwest. A 2018 study estimated capital costs for the project ranging from $24 billion to $42 billion in 2017 dollars. Ultra-high speed ground transportation refers to technology such as high speed electrified rail, hyperloop, or magnetic levitation with a maximum operating speed of up to 250 miles per hour...