Critics: Interstate bridge staff hid information about ballooning cost of giant highway project

 

The estimated price tag more than doubled from $6 billion to $13.6 billion, but staff told a bistate panel Dec. 15 it didn’t have new numbers. 

 

By Nigel Jaquiss

Oregon Journalism Project

At a Dec. 15 public hearing on the Interstate Bridge Replacement project, government employees who have been working for years to replace the I-5 bridge over the Columbia River told a bistate committee of lawmakers they did not have new cost…

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