Goin' North the Rush is On

Not to Alaska, but at least home.



After spending an hour and a half working my way 17 miles North (after a week that I can only describe as steadily declining) I have the following statistics and thoughts:



The Car Trip Computer claims that over 3500 miles, the car averages 23 mpg and 27 mph. Considering I spend a majority of time in that car on the highway.....I must drive slow.



I wonder if we could pass a measure to change the bridges across the Columbia Slough and over to Hayden Island into Toll Bridges. The booths would be located (going south) at the South end of the I-5 Bridge and somewhere before the Delta Park exit. This would turn the voting measure into an Oregon measure (as the I-5 bridge would involve 2 states).



Revenue could be used to extend the mass transit line to Vancouver City center as a "gift" from the City of Portland/Multnomah County to the City of Vancouver (seeing that the Clark County voters turned it down originally).



Alternately, revenue could be used to build an elevated freeway above the current I-5 corridor. Infrared license plate readers would be used to fine people with out of state plates for driving on it.



Of course the ideal answer would be to annex Clark County into Oregon, but I guess for less property tax, those people up North like to pay Oregon Income Tax, (occassionally) Washington State Tax, and pump their own gas.

Thoughts, opinions, suggestions?


If I Were King of the Forrrgh-est, Taronga Zoo, New South Wales, September 2005, by LHD