Why use our comment form?
The IBR project has been asked by advisory committee members to make public comments available in real-time, but has declined to do so. Just Crossing Alliance is providing a comment form that will both immediately submit comments to IBR and make them available in a viewable archive.
Also, unlike the IBR comment form, our form allows attachments.
If you don’t want your comment to be publicly viewable immediately (it will eventually be published in the Final EIS) we suggest you use the IBR comment page instead.
Some commenting tips
- If you have multiple subjects to comment on, submit them in separate comments, one topic per comment.
- Maximum one attachment per submission. If you want to submit multiple attachments, submit one comment for each.
- Put your comments in your own words, we know that ‘form comments’ will be discounted.
- You can read about our insights into the EIS, here are some key points:
- Displacement of houses, businesses and floating homes
- We know that a second auxiliary lane will NOT reduce greenhouse gases by reducing congestion, history teaches us it will induce more traffic and result in MORE emissions
- Lack of any serious consideration of induced demand
- The ridiculous notion that more lanes will reduce greenhouse gases by reducing congestion
- Overestimating how much traffic will (can) increase in the no-build scenario
- Working from a problem statement (“purpose and need”) now almost 20 years old
- Very pessimistic view that we can contain climate change to less than 2°C
- Clear admission that Southbound morning commutes will still have serious backups at the I-5/I-405 split, made worse by more traffic crossing the bridge (indeed, traffic at the split will backup onto and past the bridge). This will slow down express buses.
- Light Rail capacity from Vancouver will be limited by capacity at the Steel Bridge
- Transit stations (and active transportation connections) will be 50-100 feet in the air on Hayden Island and at the Vancouver waterfront