Organizers of the CRC Opposition and Alternatives Rally have just released their third spoof “Bridge Shopping Network” video. But something has gone awry — hosts Joe and Kristen’s sales pitch is interrupted by anti-CRC hackers!
From the release notes:
In our third snippet from the Bridge Shopping Network things go “all-CSPAN” as the show is hacked live into the Joe Cortright’s formal testimony at the Jan 29th Portland City Council meeting on the Columbia River Crossing (CRC). It’s surely not what the BS Network hosts have in mind…
Watch the video below the jump (or on YouTube):
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OK now this is just ridiculous, things are going a little bit too far. So you dont want the bridge, protest it all you want, but do you really thinking that hacking into a tv network will A)get you anywhere and B)any respect?
You’re making a mockery of the situation. shame
this goes out to that group, hopefully not anyone in this community
ha ha
Michael #1,
Do honestly you think they seriously “hacked into a tv network?” Like there’s actually a “Bridge Shopping Network?”
It’s a joke, dude. Albeit not a very good one.
Why don’t we just tear the bridge down?
Guy#4 – Why do that? Seems like a pretty good bridge already.
Check out the section B cameras at tripcheck.org – Chances are one or both directions are flowing freely at any given time. It’s got a fresh coat of
paint and the drawbridge works.
http://www.tripcheck.com/Pages/RCMap.asp?curRegion=14&mainNav=RoadConditions
The current bridge is a perfectly servicable structure, in no danger of crumbling – it’s worth one billion dollars right now. We need to look at alternatives that reduce congestion thru carpooling, tolling, opening up an hov lane, figure out where to put a lightrail system, working on the ramps and other solutions that don’t take 4 billion dollars while promoting single occupany vehicle use, sprawl and expaning i-5 and widening it thru portland.
Great to see some of the best testimony from the City Council meetings highlighted in this way.
Yeah, it’s crazy talk! Crazy LIKE A FOX …talk.
The Sunday rally will be like those Hillsboro folk protesting Sam Adams outside city hall – I bet 98% of the people there don’t regularly use the existing bridge on a daily basis.
Where is the Vancouver anti-bridge/anti-mass transit rally?
KWW your analogy made me chuckle and it’s true that a lot of the folks at the rally don’t ever use the bridge they’ll likely still pay for it twice in Oregon and Federal taxes.
Also, there will be a significant ‘couv contingent at the rally and a WA state rep who will be speaking there against the current project.
We hope you will come down and become more informed and involved in this huge investment WE are all about to make in our regional transportation infrastructure.
Point taken on the financing Dan, but being an east coast transplant, I have to say that the transportation infrastructure in Portland is the worst I have ever seen in a major city.
This goes double when you account for the smaller population with corresponding decrease in miles driven (on the flipside less money available for said projects).
If there is a sizeable Vancouver contingent there, that may change my mind…
plans for a couve rally are underway!
will YOU cross a bridge to save a bridge?