Contest: Let's Rename the CRC!

 The Columbia River Crossing goes by many names. At the moment, its preferred nomenclature is the I-5 Bridge Replacement Project. But its critics deride it as "the Big Bridge," while irrepressible blogger Jack Bogdanski has dubbed it "the CRoCk."

But with the project's passage through the halls of Salem and into the light-rail-crushing hands of the Washington legislature, these names lack the august grandeur such a pivotal moment requires.

WW is taking suggestions.

We are offering a six-pack of delicious, Washington-brewed Everybody's Local Logger Lager to the reader who provides us with the best moniker to bestow on the Project Formerly Known as CRC.

Just to get you started, WW has come up with six ideas. We are confident you can do better.

    •    The Free Weed Freeway

    •    The Bridge That Was Here Before a Boat Done Plowed Into It

    •    The Charlie Hales Tax-Dodge Tollway

    •    McCaig's Invisible Light-Rail Magick Bridge of Small Government

    •    BOB (Motto: "The tolls are not what they seem")

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