" Last Bridge to Nowhere"... (Ketchikan, Nome: brokers, to buy, price)

[Captain Crunch]

" Last Bridge to Nowhere " by Alaskan J. Frank Prewitt

Be sure to read the Excerpts.....

http://www.lastbridgetonowhere.com/index-1.html (broken link)

http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r239/ODforums/LastBridge-2.jpg (broken link)

[starlite9]

Originally Posted by Captain Crunch

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" Last Bridge to Nowhere " by Alaskan J. Frank Prewitt

Be sure to read the Excerpts.....

Would have liked to see the bridge built. Will be someday, but will cost even more then.

People that don't know much about Alaska use that as a tale of waste. I think it is something that is a lot more endearing than millions spent on studying "Cow Farts", "Snow flake weight", "Fish intelligence" and the list goes on and on. Even now with this 700 billion thrown into a hole for bailing out the rich brokers, and then another almost 200 billion for pork projects to get that past the politicians to buy their vote, talk about waste. The bridge was what? Expensive? Yep, but it would still be standing after the "Cow Farts" have faded into the Ozone and the Fish were canned for being stupid for getting into a net....

The bridge would have been an extension of the road system that would someday cover a lot of Southeast Alaska as time goes on.

Instead the name "Bridge to Nowhere" it is now an "Abortion" of what the true function was of the bridge was to be.

[Metlakatla]

Would have liked to see the bridge built. Will be someday, but will cost even more then.

Well, the road to Nowhere is already there, to the tune of over 250 million.

The bridge would have been an extension of the road system that would someday cover a lot of Southeast Alaska as time goes on.

It just would have gone to Gravina. But imagine a major airport in the lower 48 that was inaccessible by anything but a ferry and the whining that would have created.

[Captain Crunch]

This book isn't about that friggen Ketchikan bridge...its about Alaska Corruption in general, like Murchitski and his greed-driven republican croonies

All the way down to Palin....

The bridge deal really isn't a bad idea....except for the fact that it needed to be high enough for a friggen cruise ship to pass under, which doubles the price of the bridge...that bridge could easily be similar to the 2 floating bridges in Seattle

Those rotten sheep carriers need to go around the island when they depart Ketchikan....most of the problem would be solved

[DannyL]

Originally Posted by Captain Crunch

This book isn't about that friggen bridge...its about Alaska Corruption in general, like Murchitski and his republican croonies

I feel your pain ,but yet the bridge IS NEEDED. Show me a commercial airport in the lower 48 that is not on the road system. (jeez..we keep talking about roads like they're magical or something...go figure...)

[Captain Crunch]

Better get used to that need cuz it ain't happening...funds will never again come from the lower 48 and Alaska will never fund it

The book is not about that friggen bridge...it about a subject much more important

[starlite9]

Originally Posted by Metlakatla

Well, the road to Nowhere is already there, to the tune of over 250 million.



It just would have gone to Gravina. But imagine a major airport in the lower 48 that was inaccessible by anything but a ferry and the whining that would have created.

There is a lot of "Things to nowhere" all over Alaska, it has a history of them though good and bad times.

Train to nowhere in Nome....



Million Dollar Bridge built about 1911 to haul copper ore across the Copper River to Cordova...



There are hundreds of old mines in the middle of nowhere, canneries that are falling into the ocean from the edge of nowhere, many of these places have been abandon over a half a century ago... the list isn't a new one, it is pretty long and old...

Then there is much of Alaska which is in the middle of "Nowhere" and then from many of those places you can see the "Ends of the World".... Which in itself is a whole new thread...

Too bad people in the Lower 48 had a clue to how vast Alaska is and it's history and how inaccessible it is.

[Captain Crunch]

Neat ole train picture....

[starlite9]

Originally Posted by Captain Crunch

This book isn't about that friggen Ketchikan bridge...its about Alaska Corruption in general, like Murchitski and his greed-driven republican croonies

Nope, it is just another left leaning book that I wouldn't buy to line the bird cage.... My point was that the bridge someday will be built at a much higher cost, maybe not in my lifetime, but it will be there someday. Just like the Railroad was built across the West.

"The Bridge to Nowhere" is a term that is being stuck to Alaska to bastardize the State, if that was for Calif. or New York, nobody would have batted an eye, they would have wanted two of them.

This book is just another writer trying to profit off the term. Even the picture of the old bridge on the cover is deceiving in that it has nothing to do with the "Bridge to nowhere", that bridge at one time was in full service and preformed a function, and still may.

The Alaska corruption is entirely a different issue, those folks if after a trial that did do wrong, should go to jail, but I am not going to slam anyone until they have been tried by a jury, and not because of a bunch of writers that have an agenda.

You don't like Palin, fine... That is your choice, I don't share your view, but I respect it.

[starlite9]

Originally Posted by Captain Crunch

Neat ole train picture....

There was another one down by Yakatat too...