Alaska residents question 'road to nowhere'

[struggle4progress]

Palin constituents see spending as wasteful
By Erika Hayasaki Los Angeles Times

The 3.2-mile-long, partially paved "road to nowhere" meanders from a small international airport on Gravina Island in Alaska, home to 50 people, ending in a cul-de-sac close to a beach.

Crews are working to finish it. But no one knows when anyone will need to drive it.

That's because the $26 million road was designed to connect to the $398-million Gravina Island Bridge, infamously known as the "bridge to nowhere." State officials thought federal money would pay for the bridge, but Gov. Sarah Palin killed the project after it was ridiculed and Congress rescinded the money. Plans for the road moved forward anyway ...

"Surely we won't have to commute on the highway if there won't be a bridge," said Jill Jacob, who has been writing and calling the governor's office for the last two years protesting the road. "It's a dead-end highway, a dead-end road" ...

http://www.concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080920/NEWS03/809200373/1013/NEWS03

[LiberalAndProud]

1. Palin's dead-end road.

thanks but no thanks.


Way to cut wasteful spending Sarah!