StrkAliteN
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Yea the only good thing about the I-5 bridge connecting Vancouver WA and Portland OR is the Columbia river beneath it !Yup. We actually spent years and hundreds of millions of dollars preparing for a new interstate bridge for I-5, had like 3 different versions of plans, did the environmental studies etc but everybody in Oregon wanted light rail included because half the population of Vancouver WA, right on the other side of the river, commute to Portland to work and shop. No sales tax here, and no state income tax there. So they live over there to skip taxes and clog the freeway to work over here. But WA didn’t want to spend any money for light rail so it all ended up in a stalemate and they took too long so the federal funds went away. So did the bridge plans, it was all a waste of money. Now they’re trying to start things rolling again because traffic on that bridge is so bad plus it’s in terrible shape.
Caught this beauty a few years ago in the Columbia river. Caught it next to the Ilwaco- Astoria bridge over the river ( closer to the pacific ocean than the I-5 bridge ) about 100 miles west of I-5. You can still catch salmon around the I-5 bridge, they just mass up into larger concentrations nearer the mouth of the river where it dumps into the Pacific.