Accountability Dashboard April-June2022
Listening, learning, and reporting back to our community.
Accountability Dashboard April - June 2022
The IBR Accountability Dashboard is a transparency tool designed to share community engagement activities, program metrics, and responses to questions we are hearing. The dashboard is updated on a quarterly basis and now reflects work completed from April through June 2022.
Listening
Public Meetings Held
14
April - June 2022
Meetings held include advisory committee meetings.
Website Visitors
15,267
April– June 2022
An anonymous website metric which tracks users visiting a website. This metric includes new users and returning visitors.
Social Media Engagements
11,000+
April – June 2022
Videos Produced
20
April - June 2022
Content was created to amplify program partners voices, educate the community on the importance of auxiliary lanes, dispel program myths, highlight the needs for transit in the area and inform the community on the next steps in the process, and demonstrate the current issues with the Interstate Bridge.
YouTube Lifetime Views
31,839
Since program launch
Lifetime YouTube views are all of the views you have gained on your channel since you started uploading videos.
Community Presentations
60+
April - June 2022
Community presentations are presentations given to various community groups, neighborhoods, and municipalities at their request.
Advisory Committee Meeting Engagement
April – June 2022
Meeting views are those who viewed the meeting from YouTube either during the presentation or at a later time/date. These numbers are reflective of the advisory group meetings from April - June 2022.
| Group | Meeting Views |
|---|---|
| Executive Steering Group | 965 |
| Equity Advisory Group | 231 |
| Community Advisory Group | 418 |
Accessibility
April - June 2022
| Caption Services | Total |
|---|---|
| Meetings with captions | 14 |
| Meetings with ASL | 14 |
| Documents Remediated | 65 |
The program provided ASL interpretations and closed captioning for public meetings and events hosted by the program.
Documents and meeting presentations are remediated and made ADA compliant before posting to our website.
Newsletter Subscribers
6,903
Subscribers to date
Comments Received
448
April – June 2022
Media Stories
173
April – June 2022
Media stories generated about the IBR program between April and June.
Learning
The Modified LPA
On May 5, the IBR program shared its Modified Locally Preferred Alternative (LPA) recommendation - the foundational components of design that will be tested and evaluated during the environmental review process. Community engagement showed widespread support for designs that improve travel times and safety, relieve congestion, expand active transportation and transit options, and minimize impacts to people and the environment. Equity-priority communities continue to advocate for affordable, fast, and reliable multimodal transportation options. Hayden Island residents and businesses voiced concern around potential access, footprint size, and local connectivity for all modes. Moving the recommended Modified LPA into the next phase of work for further study was unanimously endorsed by the program’s Executive Steering Group and supported by the Bi-State Legislative Committee in July.
The Modified LPA addresses community needs through inclusion of:
- A multimodal, seismically resilient replacement bridge
- Expanded low-emission multimodal travel options, including extension of light rail transit from Portland to Vancouver
- Auxiliary lanes, safety shoulders, ramp metering, and comfortable lane widths
- Improved local street connections and interchanges
- Earthquake resilient infrastructure
- Variable rate tolling to improve travel reliability
Program Area Tour Video
Watch a tour of the IBR program area, highlighting some of the key features of the Modified LPA and changes that have taken place in the region over the past decade.
Community Advisory Group Highlights
- Reviewed and discussed the Modified LPA. Some CAG members expressed support for light rail due to its ability to serve more people with fewer transfers compared to bus rapid transit. However, the group also recognized that express bus service is still needed.
- CAG members shared interest in learning more about freight access to Hayden Island via Portland, how tolling will impact traffic and freight, and if one auxiliary lane will meet long-term travel needs.
Equity Advisory Group Highlights
- Reviewed and discussed an Equity Framework Accountability tool for the IBR program.
- Suggested additional equity analysis considerations for auxiliary lanes might include potential property impacts, including whether affordable housing may be impacted, and what the net effects would be on air quality.
- Provided a letter to the IBR program administrator, summarizing EAG feedback and recommendations regarding the Modified LPA.
Freight Leadership Engagement
The program continued engagement with the freight community in partnership with the Ports of Vancouver and Portland. The meeting included 26 participants representing ports, trucking associations, businesses, and elected officials. Participants expressed support for unimpaired freight movement, consideration for high, wide, and heavy freight movement, desire for more information about impacts to freight connectivity associated with roadway alignment, and a continued interest in traffic data forecasts beyond 2045 and future opportunities for engagement.
Bridge Stories
What’s your story?
We want to hear your experience using the bridge, what the bridge means to you and the benefits a replacement bridge could provide.
Send your story to info@interstatebridge.org. | View more bridge stories.
What we've heard and how we're responding
We've heard the community values low-barrier engagement options and the opportunity to have meaningful conversations with the program.
We've heard community members are interested in learning more about the program's design process and sharing their feedback.
We’ve heard social media is one of the preferred ways our community would like to be engaged.
Reporting- updates coming soon!
The program will continue to share accountability reports and develop additional reporting metrics. The most recent accountability reports include the 2021 Program Progress Report and 2021 Community Engagement Reports. The 2020 Conceptual Finance Plan provides an early and high-level overview of initial estimated funding and financing needs and potential sources.
Current reports are listed to the right. For more information, visit our library.
Bi-state and Legislative Reports
2022 Legislative Progress Report
2021 Legislative Progress Report
2020 Conceptual Finance Plan
2020 Legislative Progress Report
Community Engagement Reports
2021 Fall Community Engagement Report
2021 Spring Community Engagement Report
Program Timeline
The program is utilizing past work as appropriate to maximize past investment and support efficient decision-making, while also taking into account changes that have occurred since the previous planning process to identify a solution that meets current and future community needs and priorities. The IBR program will work with the community, as well as local, state, federal and tribal partners to complete the following work in the coming years:
- Complete the environmental review process
- Obtain state and federal permits
- Finalize program design
- Develop a finance plan
- Secure adequate funding
- Complete right-of-way acquisition
- Advertise for construction
The program is working with partners to identify what has changed and what design options should be considered through a transparent, data-driven process to address these changes and identify an IBR solution that best meets the needs for the region. The IBR solution will be submitted to federal agency partners at the Federal Highway Administration and Federal Transit Administration as part of a re-evaluation required under the National Environmental Policy Act. The re-evaluation will document the extent of new impacts based on the changes recommended to determine the next steps in the federal environmental process.
Based on the current estimated schedule, the program anticipates beginning the construction phase of the program in 2025. The following chart provides an overview of the target timeline goals for the general buckets of work that need to be completed to begin construction. Community and stakeholder engagement will continue through construction.
| Category | Start Date | End Date |
|---|---|---|
| Program Launch | Fall 2020 | Winter 2021 |
| Planning | Fall 2020 | Winter 2022 |
| Environmental | Summer 2021 | Summer 2024 |
| Design | Winter 2021 | Summer 2025 |
| Permitting | Winter 2024 | Winter 2025 |
| Pre-Construction | Winter 2024 | Winter 2025 |
| Community Engagement | Fall 2020 | Winter 2025 |
Disadvantaged Business Participation Goals
Through January 2022*
Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) are for-profit small business concerns where socially and economically disadvantaged individuals own at least a 51% interest and also control management and daily business operations.
| Contractual Obligation | Program Goal | Current Participation |
|---|---|---|
| 15% | 20% | 18% |
Current Funding Sources
* An additional $1 billion is dedicated through the Move Ahead WA transportation package for future work to complete construction.
Oregon: $45,000,000*
Washington: $ 45,000,000**
Funding Source notes:
* – CFDA 20.205, title Highway Planning and Construction, Federal Aid Highway Program Funds.
** – WA State Motor Vehicle account funds.
An additional $1 billion is dedicated through the Move Ahead WA transportation package for future work to complete construction.
Current Expenditures
Expenditures Through December 2021*
| IBR Program Work | Spent through December 2021* |
| WSDOT | $2,123,139.35 |
| ODOT | $1,053,332.58 |
| General Engineering Consultant** | $30,517,483 |
| Intergovernmental Agreements | $164,878.99 |
*Spending reflects all costs associated with program work since efforts were reinitiated in July 2019, including labor, equipment, and expenses
**General Engineering Consultant figure reflects costs incurred for work performed through the date indicated
GEC Expenditures Through December 2021 by Category
Expenditures Through December 2021*
|
Description |
Expenditures Through December 2021 |
|
Program Management |
5,051,056 |
|
Program Controls |
3,804,393 |
|
Financial Structures |
972,216 |
|
Communications |
6,019,500 |
|
Transportation Planning |
2,082,007 |
|
Environmental |
2,888,834 |
|
Transit Planning/Engineering |
2,366,400 |
|
Design Engineering |
4,552,633 |
|
Major Structures |
1,749,641 |
|
Direct Expense |
1,030,803 |
|
Grand Total |
30,517,483 |
Consultant Representation by Geographic Area
Through January 2022*
PNW firms are firms with offices in OR and WA, that are not in the Portland/Vancouver region.
List of current subconsultants (as of January 2022) WSP USA, Parametrix, Inc., PointNorth Consulting, Espousal Strategies, Otak, Inc., GKM dba/Amico Public Relations, Triunity, Inc., Emerio Design, LLC, Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Architects LLP, Willamette Cultural Resources Associates, Ltd, IML Services LLC, Group AGB, LTD, Shannon & Wilson, Inc, Alta Planning + Design, Inc., Wolf Water Resources: Cooper Zietz Engineers, Steven M. Siegel, Thuy Tu Consulting, LLC, Knight Architects Limited, Ott-Sakai & Associates, LLC, Epic Land Solutions, Inc., Armeni Consulting Services, LLC
Number of comments received via email and the website form.