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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, MAY 15, 2018
Seaside remembers
Consultant favors I-5
tolling through Portland nation’s fallen officers
By PARIS ACHEN
Capital Bureau
PORTLAND — A pro-
posal to toll all lanes of Inter-
state 5 in both directions
through the metro area would
reduce traffic congestion in
that corridor and raise $50
million per year that could
be put toward road projects,
according to an analysis by
WSP USA.
Consultants with the New
York-based engineering and
management firm said they
favor that option — over four
others they have analyzed
— as a way to prove to area
drivers that tolling all lanes
with a congestion-based price
improves traffic flow.
The recommendation was
given Monday to an advisory
committee studying options
to relieve congestion in the
metro area.
The proposal would
involve tolling all northbound
and southbound lanes of I-5
between Going Street and
Multnomah Boulevard.
That concept “provides
that best opportunity” and
could be done relatively inex-
pensively as a pilot project,
said David Ungemah, a con-
sultant and vice president with
WSP USA.
The I-5 corridor “has a
lot of congestion that occurs
through multiple hours of
the day,” Ungemah said.
“We already see tremendous
amounts of diversion due to
that congestion, but there is
City heralds
police week
ing to the consultants.
They recommended elim-
inating two other options
because those scenarios
wouldn’t produce the results
the committee is seeking. The
first would convert the left
northbound high-occupancy
vehicle lane the left south-
bound general purpose lane to
a tolled lane through the Port-
land area.
“The problem is that the
Abernathy Bridge is still
going to be a bottleneck in that
scenario, and that bottleneck
is going constrain conditions
both on the general-purpose
lanes as well as on the express
lane, which makes that con-
cept not quite as viable as we
were hoping for,” Ungemah
said.
The second option the
consultants want to elimi-
nate would apply a variable
toll on a single, newly-con-
structed, left lane between
Highway 99 East and Stafford
Road, including the Abernethy
Bridge.
The Oregon Department of
Transportation hired the con-
sultants to assist a policy advi-
sory committee charged with
recommending a tolling plan
for I-5 and I-205.
The 25 committee mem-
bers — who heard the results
of the analysis during a meet-
ing Monday — have not
committed to any of the five
options the consultants ana-
lyzed. The committee also
isn’t restricted only to those
five options.
a good presence of different
types of transit services avail-
able in that segment of the
region, as well as connections
into high-demand activity cen-
ters, such as the Lloyd Center
and downtown Portland.”
Choosing that proposal
would “give some assur-
ance that congestion pricing
can work at reducing conges-
tion, meeting the objectives,
as transparently evaluated by
not only ODOT but also its
regional partners,” he said.
If successful, the Oregon
Transportation Commission
could expand tolling to all
lanes of I-5 and Interstate 205
through Portland, which is
another one of the five options
that have been modeled by the
consultants.
Under their modeling sce-
nario, the cost to a driver — if
both interstates were tolled —
would average about $1.39 per
day, depending on the length
and location of their commute.
The average daily cost
would increase to $2.02 if
only the I-5 lanes were tolled.
The more lanes that are
tolled the less expensive oper-
ating costs are to toll each
lane, the consultants said.
They also recommended
that the committee continue
to consider a toll on the I-205
Abernathy Bridge to help pay
for the cost of adding a third
lane on the bridge. A toll
of $3.50 to cross the bridge
would yield about $50 million
per year to cover the costs of
adding the third lane, accord-
By R.J. MARX
The Daily Astorian
FIVE-DAY FORECAST FOR ASTORIA
TONIGHT
WEDNESDAY
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Burns
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48/62
Lakeview
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Ashland
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Liam Baker, 21, of Warren-
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Warrenton Drive and charged
with DUII. Baker allegedly
showed signs of impairment
from marijuana.
• At 3:23 a.m. Saturday, a
17-year-old boy was arrested
by the Clatsop County Sher-
iff’s Office and charged
with DUII. Officers initially
responded to a report of a vehi-
cle stuck in a ditch.
• At 2:44 a.m. Saturday,
Zackry Tyler Norton, 26, of
Astoria, was arrested by Asto-
ria police on Klaskanine Ave-
nue near Seventh Street and
charged with DUII. His blood
alcohol content was 0.20
percent.
• At 12 a.m. Saturday, Terin
Louis Hankins, 22, of Astoria,
was arrested by Astoria police
on the 280 block of Marine
Drive and charged with DUII.
His blood alcohol content was
0.12 percent.
• At 11:25 p.m. Friday,
Charles Francis Kendig, 54,
of Redondo Beach, California,
was arrested by the Clatsop
County Sheriff’s Office on the
92660 block of Pearson Road
and charged with DUII.
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PUBLIC MEETINGS
TUESDAY
Port of Astoria Commission,
4 p.m., Port offices, 10 Pier 1
Suite 209.
Sunset Empire Park and Rec-
reation District, 5:15 p.m., Bob
Chisholm Community Center,
1225 Avenue A, Seaside.
Seaside School District Board
of Directors, 6 p.m., 1801 S.
Franklin.
Seaside Planning Commis-
sion, 7 p.m., work session, City
Hall, 989 Broadway.
WEDNESDAY
Seaside Tourism Advisory
Committee, 3 p.m., 989 Broad-
way.
Cannon Beach Budget Com-
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opportunity to remember the
fallen officers who are gone.
“We’re trying to honor those
who gave the ultimate sacri-
fice,” he said. “It’s a very spe-
cial meaning to the depart-
ment and me personally losing
Jason over two years ago. It
means everything. It’s a time
to come together.”
The 183 who have died
while serving in Oregon are
recognized each May at the
Oregon Fallen Law Enforce-
ment Memorial in Salem.
DEATH
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ington, D.C. The 129 national
deaths in 2017 followed a year
in which 159 lives were lost.
“It’s a continuing effort to
make sure fallen offers across
the nation, as well as in Ore-
gon, are remembered and
never forgotten,” Holt said.
“We take time out to pause and
reflect on a life that was taken
and what that means to other
survivors, family, co-workers
and friends.”
Seaside Police Chief Dave
Ham said the event was an
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Seaside Police Lt. Bruce Holt remembers fallen officers
and ushers in National Police Week.
ON THE RECORD
DUII
• At 12:13 a.m. Tuesday,
Andrew B. Gessford, 24, of
Astoria, was arrested by War-
renton police on Hamburg
Avenue and Marine Drive and
charged with driving under the
influence of intoxicants and
unlawful possession of heroin.
• At 1:49 a.m. Sunday, Jen-
nifer Alicen Morris, 33, of
Clatskanie, was arrested by
Oregon State Police on U.S.
Highway 101 near Turlay
Lane and charged with DUII.
Her blood alcohol content was
0.17 percent.
• At 11:57 p.m. Saturday,
Roseburg
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Brookings
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UNDER THE SKY
High
9.6 ft.
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Prineville
52/71
Lebanon
53/64
Eugene
50/64
Full
Pendleton
59/77
The Dalles
62/79
Portland
56/70
Sunset tonight ........................... 8:41 p.m.
Sunrise Wednesday .................... 5:42 a.m.
Moonrise today ........................... 6:20 a.m.
Moonset today ........................... 9:07 p.m.
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ASTORIA
53/60
Precipitation
Monday ............................................ 0.00"
Month to date ................................... 0.35"
Normal month to date ....................... 1.63"
Year to date .................................... 33.05"
Normal year to date ........................ 31.67"
May 15
SATURDAY
61
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REGIONAL WEATHER
Astoria through Monday.
Temperatures
High/low ....................................... 62°/53°
Normal high/low ........................... 60°/45°
Record high ............................ 82° in 1939
Record low ............................. 35° in 1964
New
FRIDAY
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SEASIDE — Lt. Bruce
Holt, Seaside’s longest-serv-
ing police officer, read the
names of the 129 national law
enforcement deaths in 2017
to usher in National Police
Week.
Holt was joined by chap-
lain Andy Klumper at the can-
dlelight ceremony on Sunday
at Broadway Park. Residents,
police officers and visitors
stood in the twilight vigil.
“Tonight’s event is to
commemorate the starting of
National Police Week,” Holt
said. “Tonight, in Washington,
D.C., they have a candlelight
vigil, and in Seaside, with the
recent loss of Jason Good-
ding and other officers, we’ll
be doing a roll call of officers
who have made the ultimate
sacrifice.”
In Clatsop County, six law
enforcement personnel have
died in the line of duty, Holt
said, including Goodding, the
Seaside officer who was shot
and killed in the line of duty in
February 2016.
The annual remembrance
began in 1962 when Presi-
dent John F. Kennedy signed a
public law that declared May
15 as National Peace Offi-
cers Memorial Day and the
calendar week in which May
15 falls as National Police
Week. The annual tribute to
law enforcement service and
sacrifice includes ceremonies
throughout the week in Wash-
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