Skagit River bridge collapsed!

[The_Lillard_King]

In Oct. 2011, Republicans filibustered Obama's Rebuild America's Jobs Act, which was to provide $50 billion toward infrastructure.

Now, back to current events. The Skagit River bridge is crossed by 71,000 vehicles per day. The Portland-Vancouver bridge across the Columbia River sees only 120,000 vehicles daily. They are both on I-5. Why does the Mt. Vernon area (population 40,000) get more than half the crossings of Portland (2 million)? (Source: all the articles I'm suddenly seeing about bridges.)

Ptd has 2 bridges to cross over the Columbia. The I-5 and the 205. Together they average about about 275,000 vehicles a day.

 

[PapaG]

In Oct. 2011, Republicans filibustered Obama's Rebuild America's Jobs Act, which was to provide $50 billion toward infrastructure.

Now, back to current events. The Skagit River bridge is crossed by 71,000 vehicles per day. The Portland-Vancouver bridge across the Columbia River sees only 120,000 vehicles daily. They are both on I-5. Why does the Mt. Vernon area (population 40,000) get more than half the crossings of Portland (2 million)? (Source: all the articles I'm suddenly seeing about bridges.)

Yes, this was after the complete joke of the "Stimulus Act" of 2009, that 4 years later still has us in roughly the same place.