This will come as a huge shock, but an independent panel has studied the issue in depth and has discovered - much as a similar panel discovered in the 1980's - that a new I-5 bridge over the Columbia River between Portland and Vancouver is urgently needed. Oregon "governor" Ted and Washington Queen Christine have leapt into action, directing the state transportation agencies to get back to them in a month.
The bridge should have been built 20 years ago, but funds were diverted instead to west-side light rail.
They've wasted $100 million so far, just on "planning". Clearly, we have far too many "planners" and far too many layers of government. Private enterprise, left to itself, would have delivered a new bridge by now.
