Have We Got a Bridge to Sell You! - The Columbia River Crossing

Building Like it's 1959 is the first in a series of spoofs by the Bridge Shopping Network (BSN) made to promote the Citizen's Opposition and Alternatives to the Columbia River Crossing (CRC) rally, which is being held noon Sunday, April 5th at the Tom McCall Waterfront Park (north of the Hawthorne Bridge).

To find out more about the Columbia River Crossing and see better alternatives see http://smarterbridge.org/

The video was produced by Dan Kaufman http://crankmychain.com and Joe 'Metal Cowboy' Kurmaskie http://metalcowboy.com .

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[revphil]

i want a bridge from Portland to marry hill direct! its not like we have to pave the ENTIRE Columbia, just enough to make my life obscenely comfortable

[peejayfixie]

Is there a warranty that comes with this bridge? I want to know that if I don't like it 10-15 years from now, that it can be UNbuilt.

[pdxktv]

RSB: "So as far as I'm concerned they should leave it a is."

Sound good to me.

PS -RSB, don't forget the WA state sales tax, which you are still required to pay even if you buy in Oregon.

[pdxktv]

Yeah, war. You seem pretty smart. Do I have to spell it out for you?

I'd rather live in a million dollar condo in the Peal than a million dollar McMansion in the 'couv - but that's just me. Nice part about the Pearl condo is that you wouldn't HAVE to own a car.

[rsb97060]

Of course not. And as I stated before I don't like the idea of replacing this span. But anytime the idea for a third crossing elsewhere across the Columbia comes up, it gets shot down rather quickly. So as far as I'm concerned they should leave it a is. If you drive I-5 over the Columbia, good luck to ya'. Why should those damn Washingtonians live over there anyway if they work here? Since they have to pay Oregon income tax regardless, they should pay our horrendous property tax too!

[rsb97060]

War?! I'm about as anti-war as one could get. As for sprawl, I thought that the solution for that was all the new crackerbox apartments being built, and those million dollar plus condos in "The Pearl." I thought that the Portland Development Commission had it all under control.

[pdxktv]

Strangely enough we care about the single largest regional transportation investment ever.

Many Oregonians have a different vision for transportation than you, one that moves away from dangerous and expensive single occupancy motorcars, massive freeways, sprawl, pollution and war.

[pdxktv]

Are you suggesting we replace every bridge older than 1959?

[rsb97060]

If Oregonians aren't using it, why should we care, right?

[rsb97060]

My comment about letting it fall down is in regards to the I-35W bridge in Minneapolis. When it collapsed did they all sit around wringing their hands, pointing the finger, having foolish protests, etc.? No! They built a larger bridge within ONE YEAR! Granted, the circumstances are entirely different with CRC but it looks like that's what it would take (a bridge collapse) to even get this damn thing off the ground. Even then I'm sure that the Portland bicycle lobby would try like hell to stop it

[pdxktv]

That's an interesting idea. Will Washington pay Oregon's share, as well?

If that happened I bet you wouldn't see a new bridge.

[rsb97060]

I never said that I was fully in favor of the current CRC plan. Frankly I don't see how 12 lanes will work when ultimately they squeeze back into 6 lanes within a mile or two on each side.

Furthermore, I believe that a third crossing somewhere else such as Troutdale to Camas would have made much more sense based on the explosive growth throughout the 90's in east Clark County.

Build like it's 1959? We're using 1959-era infrastructure, thus the need for something else.