POLL: With updated estimates reaching as high as $17.7 billion, what should happen to the I-5 Bridge replacement project?

New cost estimates and withheld information have raised fresh questions about transparency inside the Interstate Bridge Replacement Program

A recent report by Oregon Journalism Project reporter Nigel Jaquiss details internal documents showing IBR consultants completed updated cost estimates months before legislators were told no new figures were available. Those estimates put the I-5 Bridge replacement project as high as $13.6 billion, far above earlier public numbers. In response, some lawmakers say they were misled, while IBR officials maintain the figures were only draft estimates. This poll asks whether the public believes IBR staff were truthful with lawmakers about the project’s true cost.

More info:

Opinion: ‘The IBR team has been lying to us and thanks to a veteran Oregon journalist, we have the smoking gun’

Posted by Ken Vance, Editor

|Thursday, January 8, 2026

|in : Columns, Staff Opinions, Opinion, Transportation

Ken Vance argues newly obtained documents show Interstate Bridge Replacement staff withheld updated cost estimates from lawmakers and the public.

Read more