The IBR’s public relations consultants are working overtime this weekend to spin the IBR’s new $13 to $17 billion estimate announcement.
Announcement was delayed from today to Tuesday.
The IBR has spent over $25 million on public relations consultants.
ODOT's Abernethy Bridge project, already well behind schedule and over budget, is falling further behind
The Interstate Bridge Replacement Program has skyrocketed from about $6 billion in 2023 to more than $13 billion.
www.kgw.com/article/news...
IBR’s $17 billion Estimate Panic
The IBR had no “Meeting Materials” available for tomorrow’s ESG March 13, 2026 Meeting and just canceled the meeting.
No Agenda
No Meeting Presentation
No Public Comments
The IBR has rescheduled a ESG March 17, 2026 Meeting.
Letter: British Columbia’s new immersed tunnel can solve Interstate Bridge Replacement Program’s $17.7 billion problem
www.clarkcountytoday.com/opinion/lett...
Friday the 13th IBR style: Spinning a terrifying new cost estimate.
"IBR Cost Estimates: Delayed, manipulated hidden, and lied."
cityobservatory.org/friday-the-1...
Not too late to sacle back IBR's Boondoggle.
An Immersed Tunnel alternative; less cost, faster to build, safer, more earthquake resilient.
Fraudulently disqualfied by the IBR!
NJ Scales Back Part of Gov. Murphy’s Turnpike Boondoggle
nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/03/04/n...
IBR will also go for a triple cost estimate?
Key Bridge replacement battles soaring costs to restore Port of Baltimore traffic
"The price tag for the project has surged to $5.2 billion, more than triple the initial estimate."
canada.constructconnect.com/dcn/news/usa...
"As Metro President David Bragdon observed, Oregon and Washington DOT officials routinely lied and misled local officials about federal requirements and deadlines to block better and more affordable options."
IBR lied about an Immersed Tunnel option.
cityobservatory.org/freeway-figh...
The Alaskan Way Viaduct spoiled Seattle’s waterfront for 70 years. Only 40 ft wide and 60 ft high the viaduct was a midget compared the IBR's bridge approaches.
At 232 ft wide and over 100 ft high, the IBR's approaches will decimate Vancouver and Hayden Island's riverfronts.
Doubtful IBR will release its promised March Estimate before the Washington Legislature ends.
Doubtful it will be any more accurate than WSDOT’s SR-520 Montlake Bridge estimate, only two bidders at 69% and 109% over WSDOT’s estimate.
A turn-of-the-century confidence man George C. Parker sold the Brooklyn Bridge by telling buyers they could collect tolls.
The IBR (WSDOT, ODOT & consultants) has relied on the gullibility, greed, & vanity of our government officials to perpetrate a $17.7 billion con on OR and WA taxpayers.
“put a shovel in the dirt”
Vancouver Mayor Anne McEnerny-Ogle
“We need to start with a bridge and work from there.”
Assistant IBR Administrator Ray Maybe
An I-5 Immersed Tunnel and the preservation of the current bridges will cost half of IBR’s bridge and approaches and provide more lanes.
WSP, current general engineering consultant, and needs to be terminated.
We need a study by an international immersed tunnel consultant.
IBR’s Gothic finance plan
IBR is presenting its finance plan to the WSTC.
Start construction now and pray for future funding. Maybe the IBR can sell indulgences if forgiven their transgressions.
Notre-Dame took 100 years to build. Cologne's Cathedral took 600 years.
The $17.7 billion Interstate Bridge Replacement Project (IBR) will drain as decade of funding for a thousand ODOT jobs, and a hundred thousand potholes.
www.opb.org/article/2026...
Five legislators want to demolish the current I-5 bridges, and spent $17.7 billion on the Interstate Bridge Replacement.
Local View: I-5 Bridge project urgent, vital
www.columbian.com/news/2026/fe...
Both the Brooklyn & Gold Gate Bridges are older, neither are slated for demolition.
A Sino-Portuguese consortium wins a major Brazilian tunnel project
The Santos-Guarujá Tunnel- Sao Paulo is the same length of a potential I-5 Columbia River immersed tunnel, 2,800 feet.
$1.26 billion is bargain campared to IBR's $17.7 billion
Link:
macaonews.org/news/lusofon...
For $3 billion (US) B.C. is building an eight lane tunnel longer and deeper than needed for an I-5 Columbia River immersed tunnel.
About half the cost of IBR's $5.9 billion bridge.
We’re FINALLY Replacing this 65-Year-Old Tunnel!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWhH...
