Vancouver Mayor Anne McEnerny-Ogle warned earlier this month that construction delays on the Interstate 5 Bridge Replacement Program would cost $1 million a day.

The comments come as the roughly $6 billion project continues to press forward despite uncertainty about whether a megaproject bridging two blue states can succeed under President Donald Trump.

Meanwhile, the project last month cleared two more of the seemingly endless procedural funding hurdles it faces on the way to replacing the 108-year-old bridge, which carries about 130,000 vehicles every day.

McEnerny-Ogle said in an Aug. 7 interview with KATU News the delays would raise the project’s price tag because the cost of the work to build the bridge itself only increases over time.

The project is currently funded with $2.1

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