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The Gravina Island Bridge, commonly referred to as the " Bridge to Nowhere ", was a proposed bridge to replace the ferry that currently connects the town of Ketchikan, Alaska, United States, with Gravina Island, an island that contains the Ketchikan International Airport as well as 50 residents. The bridge was projected to cost $398 million.
Sep 10, 2008 · Even at $223 million, the earmarks for the bridge that was supposed to connect Ketchikan to Gravina Island, Alaska, population roughly 50, has had remarkably durable legs as a campaign issue.
Nov 17, 2015 · JUNEAU -- The name "Bridge to Nowhere" still rankles in Ketchikan 10 years after congressional opponents of earmarks used it to attack federal money for the bridge to nearby Gravina Island...
Bridge to Nowhere. This may be the most well-known bridge to have never been built. The idea was to replace the ferry connecting Ketchikan with Gravina Island, where the Ketchikan Airport is.
Jun 9, 1998 · April 10, 2004: The phrase, "Bridge to Nowhere," is born in a New York Times report, quoting Keith Ashdown of Taxpayers for Common Sense, saying, ''It's a gold-plated bridge to nowhere.''...
Oct 24, 2015 · A proposed Alaska bridge that became a symbol of wasteful federal spending on politicians' pet projects has officially been scrapped a decade after the idea was first floated, state officials...
Sep 24, 2008 · KETCHIKAN, Alaska (CNN) -- The "Bridge to Nowhere" may have been shelved. But the "Road to Nowhere" is alive and well. Gov. Sarah Palin let the "Road to Nowhere" go ahead because the contract had...
Oct 24, 2015 · A proposed Alaska bridge that became a symbol of wasteful federal spending on politicians' pet projects has officially been scrapped a decade after the idea was first floated, state officials...
Sep 22, 2007 · The bridge is going nowhere. On Friday, the state of Alaska officially abandoned the controversial project in Ketchikan that became a national symbol of federal pork-barrel spending.
Sep 22, 2007 · Sept. 22, 2007. Gov. Sarah Palin ordered state transportation officials to abandon the “bridge to nowhere” project that became a nationwide symbol of federal pork-barrel spending. The $398...
