Another project partially funded by I-5 Enhancement dollars is the Killingsworth overpass improvements which will help to make this a more pleasant route for bikes, pedestrians as well as other modes and help tie N. Portland back together.
A much larger enhancement pot from a massive new I-5 bridge over the Columbia would allow for upgrades to all the I-5 overpasses in N. Portland, even the construction of a new one or two to improve the connectivity that was destroyed by I-5 in the 1960's. Or it could be the local match for Streetcar in the Williams/Vancouver corridor up to Killingsworth.
But that's high price to pay for 20K-40K more motor vehicles spilling into N. Portland's street from the proposed new I-5 bridge.
Better no new bridge and less enhancement dollars; but let's not let the CRC forget the "1% for Enhancement."

This is simply a misuse for transportation designated and gas tax derrived dollars!!!

How about a bicycle tax to plant trees!

1% is a reasonable amount to make highways, light rail and what not more attractive and not detract so much from land values (as interstates tend to do, but not light rail).

1% of this project though, well hell, the project itself, is a misappropriation of tax funds as far as I'm concerned.

But hot damn, they should be able to have a tree along every couple of feet on the bridge with it's own eco-system. :o

I agree with Adron. Also, don't trees suck up pollution that cars and trucks, but not bikes, create? If so, it seems that taxing motorists for trees makes sense.