The Western Arterial highway can be built mostly on existing roadways---connecting NW Cornelius Pass Rd. Columbia Bv., Marine Drive and then to Fruit Valley Highway in Vancouver. 2. New bridge designs that have refined the basic metal arch bridge are now very cost effective. Some have been done over smaller rivers back east for $100-$200 million. In our situation bridge costs would probably be more in the %400-500 million range. Columbia River conditions are a lot more difficult, but do not have to turn into mega projects, like the CRC or some similar proposals.

This would relieve enough pressure on I-5 to make it function normally again. Until our rapid population growth outstrips it.