it seems either Oldtimer is either unaware or ignoring facts. as is half of America..
The bridge to nowhere actually had a good intention.. and it wasn't for the half dozen residences on the island.. it became expensive because of environmental concerns, the height required to allow cruise ships under it, and politics..
if you have ever been to Alaska,. you would notice not only how beautiful it is, but how rugged it is as wall.. in Ketchikan like many small towns the mountain is to the left, and the Tongass Narrows, part of the Alaska's Inside Passage, is to the right.. and a small strip of land has houses and business cut into the cliffs.. if your heading south,. just reverse the sides..
nowhere is available for an international airport.. except on the large islands such as Gravina Island..
the need for the "international airport" is to provide people easy access to the area for tourism.. Alaska which brings in About 1.7 million visitors that brought with them.. $1.8 billion just this summer..
Ketchikan's airport is the second largest in Southeast Alaska after Juneau International Airport, while the ferry shuttles approximately a half million people in the same time period, a ferry service, that is costly in it self.. and would have been replaced by the bridge from Ketchikan clinging to a cliff on the edge of the inside passage.. and to the island of Gravina,
on the spending an economy of 1.8 billion Alaskans pay on that spending taxes. fed taxes... so a project was planned to expand the existing airport, an airport to support the tourism.. and part of that entire project was a bridge..
but if you have never been to Alaska or Ketchikan you would have to learn your facts from OT or the media..
# ^ AK Gov. Palin regretfully cancels Bridge project
The bridge to nowhere actually had a good intention.. and it wasn't for the half dozen residences on the island.. it became expensive because of environmental concerns, the height required to allow cruise ships under it, and politics..
he Gravina Island Bridge (also known as The Bridge to Nowhere) was a proposed bridge to replace the ferry that currently connects Ketchikan, Alaska, to the Ketchikan International Airport on Gravina Island.
if you have ever been to Alaska,. you would notice not only how beautiful it is, but how rugged it is as wall.. in Ketchikan like many small towns the mountain is to the left, and the Tongass Narrows, part of the Alaska's Inside Passage, is to the right.. and a small strip of land has houses and business cut into the cliffs.. if your heading south,. just reverse the sides..
nowhere is available for an international airport.. except on the large islands such as Gravina Island..
the need for the "international airport" is to provide people easy access to the area for tourism.. Alaska which brings in About 1.7 million visitors that brought with them.. $1.8 billion just this summer..
Ketchikan's airport is the second largest in Southeast Alaska after Juneau International Airport, while the ferry shuttles approximately a half million people in the same time period, a ferry service, that is costly in it self.. and would have been replaced by the bridge from Ketchikan clinging to a cliff on the edge of the inside passage.. and to the island of Gravina,
on the spending an economy of 1.8 billion Alaskans pay on that spending taxes. fed taxes... so a project was planned to expand the existing airport, an airport to support the tourism.. and part of that entire project was a bridge..
but if you have never been to Alaska or Ketchikan you would have to learn your facts from OT or the media..
# State of Alaska (2007-09-21). Governor's office press release. Retrieved from http://web.archive.org/web/20071214143302/http://www.gov.state.ak.us/archive.php?id=623&type=1.The project was canceled in 2007 by the state government.
Ketchikan desires a better way to reach the airport, but the $398 million bridge is not the answer. Despite the work of our congressional delegation, we are about $329 million short of full funding for the bridge project, and it’s clear that Congress has little interest in spending any more money on a bridge between Ketchikan and Gravina Island. Much of the public’s attitude toward Alaska bridges is based on inaccurate portrayals of the projects here. But we need to focus on what we can do, rather than fight over what has happened.
# ^ AK Gov. Palin regretfully cancels Bridge project