This is a reach on this blog connecting Daimler and the Interstate Bridge...but I am Daimler employee born and raise in Portland whose job got transferred to South Carolina (near Charlotte, North Carolina). My opinion: too little concern and too late to keep Daimler in Portland with the current players in power both in the US and Germany.
But because I am in South Carolina, I took a sightseeing trip to Charleston, SC over the weekend. We crossed over the most fantastic bridge connecting Charleston with Mt Pleasant. It is an 8 lane bridge of the most awesome design. It is longer than 3.5 miles and 200 feet above the bay which is far greater than is needed over the Columbia and was finished in 2005...for $540 MILLION.
With the Interstate Bridge, we are taking of a 6 lane bridge (how shortsighted is THAT with 1 million more people in the area over the next 20 years!!) for the cost of $4.2 BILLION.
It would be greatif the mayor's office looked at this Charleston bridge from a cost and design standpoint. View it yourself at
http://revenelbridge.net