Officials planning a new Columbia River Crossing are caught up in discussions about toll rates, cost estimates and how many lanes the bridge will have. The $4 billion project would replace the existing twin three-lane drawbridges, improve five miles of freeway and extend light rail through downtown Vancouver. Fifteen years in the works, the project faces a crucial juncture this year.

Plans for a floating bridge over Washington’s Highway 520 have generated years of dissension and cost taxpayers $221 million. The funds have gone to planning, environmental studies, public meetings and engineering to prepare for the $4.65 billion project, which has not been started.

Revised plans said to improve and better serve the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach.

From Singapore's Henderson Waves, to Lombard Street in San Francisco, Chris Sweeney at Popular Mechanics is the go-to guy for intelligence on the “strangest” infrastructure around the world. Over the last four months, he’s explored hundreds of bridges, roads, and now tunnels, with more to come. The following interview with Sweeney sheds light on his process, what he’s learned, and how stories like this can help support our industry.
 

This hour-long interview with Moses from 1977, which comes from the archives of THIRTEEN/ WNET in New York, is posted here courtesy: PBS's Blueprint America: