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Originally Posted by Ozy_Flame
That Olbermann piece was fun to watch, although he does bring up a good point about shutting down roads. Do people gripe about infrastructure jams and inconveniences when it's a Hollywood studio shutting down the Brooklyn Bridge to film? Or do they gripe more when protesters take over Brooklyn Bridge causing the same inconveniences to commuters? I'm going to guess the level of frustration is compounded when it's 'smelly hippies' doing it, and for the City (New York in this example), it's much less of an inconvenience if they're making some bucks off it somehow, even though commuters suffer the same headaches.
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I don't believe they ever allow filming to completely shut down the Brooklyn bridge at the height of rush hour.
As to people griping about things being closed due to filming, they do it all the time. Talk to any resident of an area that sees a lot of filming, like the west village.