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A $64 million runway for no one in Alaska?
Remember Alaska's "Bridge to Nowhere," a $400 million span that was supposed to connect Ketchikan to its airport on sparsely inhabited Gravina Island? The project gained infamy in 2005 as a waste of taxpayer dollars and the funds earmarked for it were withheld. The 8,000 residents of Ketchikan continue to be connected to their airport by ferry. Fast forward six years and another remote Alaskan airport project is raising questions about how the government spends money. The price… (news.blogs.cnn.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Just get the r/way stretcher....add a can of slack ,,,,,then add
the beach matting to top it off.
the beach matting to top it off.
James Wallace I feel a lot of predjudice coming from a hateful egotistical I'm better than them individual. Or should I say a Non-Native individual. Granted services are a lot more expensive here in Alaska. I don't know where you are at and don't really care. Just because you can walk or drive to anywhere you want doesn't mean us Natives shouldn't have at least the level of services where we can get out in case of an emergency or otherwise. You just stay where you are at and leave us alone.
After all it was you non natives that screwed up things everywhere in the world and just couldn't leave well enough alone.
After all it was you non natives that screwed up things everywhere in the world and just couldn't leave well enough alone.
Kinda like small town air service subsidy and living close to airports. I hate to sound mean but ya'll chose to live there, and as you allude to, in order to get away from the problems of what we have screwed up. You can't have it both ways. I live 20 miles from town and figured out all the lack of convenience and extra stuff it would take to live here when we moved down here 33 years ago, and I ain't whining for town to come closer. I dealt with party lines and dial up internet for years but that was just part of it.
I agree with Mr. Bookout, you decided to live in a remote area without an airport. So you can also decide to move to another location where an airport exists OR you can help build an airport with city/private funding only. If the Trident company brings in enough revenue to the city/state over a certain period to pay for the costs of the airport, then fine, build it.
just let GWB know that there might be WMD in the area and bridge will go up over night
lolz
bridge. With a bridge it could have been "somewhere. Have any of the people that were complaining about the proposed bridge ever been to Ketchikan? Has anybody ever noticed that Sitka got a bridge?