Accountability Dashboard
Listening, learning, and reporting back to our community.
Accountability Dashboard
This accountability dashboard is a voluntary transparency tool that provides quarterly updates on our engagement with the community. Biannual updates related to financial and contracting metrics can be found under the Reporting tab.
Listening
Public Meetings Held
22
October - December 2022
Meetings held include advisory committee meetings.
Community Presentations
14
October - December 2022
Community presentations are presentations given to various community groups, neighborhoods, and municipalities at their request.
Comments Received
160
October – December 2022
Social Media Engagements
7,744
October – December 2022
Website Visitors
9,821
October – December 2022
An anonymous website metric which tracks users visiting a website. This metric includes new users and returning visitors.
Media Stories
134
October – December 2022
Media stories generated about the IBR program between October and December.
Advisory Group Meeting Engagement
October -December 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 Oct - Dec 2022.
| Group | Meeting Views |
|---|---|
| Executive Steering Group | 195 |
| Equity Advisory Group | 125 |
| Community Advisory Group | 232 |
Accessibility
October - December 2022
| Caption Services | Total |
|---|---|
| Meetings with captions | 5 |
| Meetings with ASL | 5 |
| Documents Remediated | 23 |
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.
Videos Produced
8
October - December 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
38,472
Since program launch
Lifetime YouTube views are all of the views you have gained on your channel since you started uploading videos.
Newsletter Subscribers
6,958
Subscribers to date
Learning
An Updated cost estimate include the base cost + project risks + inflation. The sum of the three equal an updated cost estimate.
What is Included
Modified Locally Preferred Alternative Components:
- Replacement bridge over the Columbia River
- Replacement of the North Portland Harbor Bridge
- One auxiliary lane southbound and northbound
- Extension of light rail from Portland to Vancouver and three new station locations
- Partial interchange on Hayden Island
- Full interchange on Marine Drive
- Access bridge from Hayden Island to Marine Drive
Cost Estimate Update
A new cost estimate has been developed and reflects the current, endorsed Modified LPA components and current market conditions. It also accounts for potential risks and opportunities, and expenditures for construction of the replacement bridge and facilities, occurring between 2025-2035. The new cost estimate range is $5 - $7.5 billion. Risks in the cost estimation process can be associated with unexpected cost escalation of materials or labor, inflation, schedule delays, and unplanned events or findings during construction. National and regional construction projects have seen unprecedented cost increases due to the effects of unanticipated construction interruptions, highly competitive and saturated market conditions, labor shortages, and historically high inflation rates. The Financial Plan will include additional details on estimated costs, funding sources and the finance approach.
For more information, view our Cost Estimate Update factsheet.
Community Advisory Group Highlights
- CAG members learned about partner conditions regarding the IBR Modified LPA and reviewed proposed program improvements that will be evaluated through the NEPA environmental evaluation process.
Equity Advisory Group Highlights
- EAG members discussed how the IBR program will measure success related to established equity objectives and shared recommendations regarding key performance indicators.
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 the community is interested in learning more about how the program will impact them.
We’ve heard social media is one of the preferred ways our community would like to be engaged.
Reporting
Updated through May 2022. June - December 2022 update is in process and will be updated soon. Contracting and expenditure data takes longer to receive and compile and may not be available until months after the reported timeframe. The program will continue to share accountability reports and develop additional reporting metrics. The most recent accountability reports includes the 2022 Legislative 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 (December)
2022 Legislative Progress Report (June)
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 | 2026 |
| Permitting | Summer 2024 | 2026 |
| Pre-Construction | Summer 2024 | 2026 |
| Community Engagement | Fall 2020 | 2026 |
Disadvantaged Business Participation Goals
Through Dec 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 | Current Participation |
|---|---|
| 15% | 16% |
Current Funding Sources
* An additional $1 billion is dedicated through the Move Ahead WA transportation package for future work to complete construction.
Oregon: $55,000,000*
Washington: $ 45,000,000**
Funding Source notes:
* – CFDA 20.205, title Highway Planning and Construction, Federal Aid Highway Program Funds. Reflects committed funding through August 2022.
** – 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 2022*
| IBR Program Work | Spent through Dec 2022* |
| WSDOT | $ 3,285,942.00 |
| ODOT | $ 3,271,970.00 |
| General Engineering Consultant** | $ 56,440,547.63 |
| Intergovernmental Agreements | $ 3,293,553.00 |
*Spending reflects all costs associated with program work since efforts were reinitiated in July 2019, including labor, equipment, and expenses. Oregon and Washington states have agreed to share costs equally, but the timing of funding and expenditures will vary.
**General Engineering Consultant figure reflects costs incurred for work performed through the date indicated.
GEC Expenditures
Expenditures Through December 2022*
|
Description |
Expenditures Through Dec 2022 |
|
Program Management |
9,279,765.87 |
|
Program Controls |
6,261,169.58 |
|
Financial Structures |
2,354,687.12 |
|
Communications |
8,846,077.55 |
|
Transportation Planning |
4,184,708.27 |
|
Environmental |
7,151,628.83 |
|
Transit Planning/Engineering |
4,135,919.62 |
|
Design Engineering |
7,725,396.42 |
|
Major Structures |
3,075,175.54 |
|
Public Affairs/Partner Relations |
727,627.20 |
|
Direct Expense |
1,802,961.55 |
|
Program Office |
895,385.08 |
Consultant Representation by Geographic Area
Through December 2022*
PNW firms are firms with offices in OR and WA, that are not in the Portland/Vancouver region.
Portland / Vancouver - 57%
Northwest - 26%
Other - 17%
Previous Accountability Dashboards
Accountability Dashboard V.6 July - September 2022
Accountability Dashboard V.5 April - June 2022
Accountability Dashboard V.4 January - March 2022
Accountability Dashboard V.3 September - December 2021
Accountability Dashboard V.2 June - August 2021
Accountability Dashboard V.1 January - May 2021
Number of comments received via email and the website form.