But the IBRP team was insistent that a lower bridge would work. The Coast Guard wanted at least 178 feet of vertical space for ships to pass underneath. This all started in June of last year, when the Coast Guard informed the IBRP team that their plan for a 116-foot tall bridge across the Columbia River wasn’t going to fly. Additionally, the program will continue conversations with potentially impacted fabricators and businesses, who have expressed support for the replacement of the bridge and interest in mitigation agreement discussions necessary for a fixed span.” We appreciate the responsibilities that the Coast Guard oversees and acknowledge the need to better understand the full range of benefits and impacts associated with a replacement bridge across the Columbia River. “The program understands that external stakeholders want to move forward with a fixed span. In his comments to BikePortland, Johnson was very careful to show unwavering support for the existing fixed-span design: In response, Johnson told us, “To do this, the program is moving forward with studying a movable span as part of the National Environmental Protection Act (NEPA) review process.” He added that doing the study now is a “risk mitigation strategy” because it can be folded into the existing review process and could prevent more significant delays later in the process. “Including only one alternative in the Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS) introduces risk that no permittable alternative will be evaluated in the SEIS,” reads the Coast Guard letter. IBRP Administrator Greg Johnson told BikePortland via email this morning that the Coast Guard delivered a letter to the Federal Highway Administration and the Federal Transit Administration in February requesting a study of a design option that provides 178 feet of river clearance. Coast Guard is putting their foot down when it comes to their demands that the project do a more thorough review of a movable lift-span (drawbridge) option. As reported by The Oregonian Tuesday, the U.S. Whether or not they can fit under the currently proposed design has suddenly become a much bigger deal. But that doesn’t mean it’s been all smooth sailing. ![]() It has broad local political support and even got name-dropped by President Joe Biden. The plan to expand the I-5 freeway between Portland and Vancouver, known as the Interstate Bridge Replacement Program (IBRP), has had some success over the last year or so. Our choices reflect different users’ needs for affordability versus lifting height and capacity, and access to tires, wheels and brakes for routine service, in some cases by adding a set of adapters to raise the wheels and tires off the ramps of four-post lifts. The lifts we evaluated covered a range of prices from about $2,000 to $4,500.A bridge in Michigan shared as one example of a lift span by the Interstate Bridge Replacement Program. ![]() We also compared and aggregated the findings of critics and lift users. We examined the lift features including lifting height and weight, portability, safety features to protect the user and the vehicle when being raised, power requirements. We evaluated a sampling of portable or scissors jacks that slide under the car and lift it off the ground enough to do work underneath, two-post lifts that raise the vehicle close to the ceiling and allow for standing work on tires and brakes, and four-post lifts meant to store one car safely over another or for repair work. Shop lifts for home garages raise a car off the ground two to eight feet, allowing for maintenance, repairs and detailing.
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