Isn’t this a navigable waterway? How could it just be closed off by end-to-end aircraft carriers?
Install some shops and restaurants, a few apartments....hmm
Stupid idea. Not a floating bridge per se, but taking on the upkeep of 3 ancient vast steel hulks.
I lived in Port Orchard when I was stationed in Puget Sound Naval Shipyard while decommissioning the USS Scamp. This ugly and expensive boondoggle would cut about 4 miles off the trip. The picture in the article does not show that Sinclair Inlet ends just a little to the west of the right edge of the picture. How convenient that they lopped that off.
“It will be a great day when they have to have a bake sale to buy the aircraft carriers.”
I’m thinking the better choice would be to melt them down and recycle the steel into a suspension bridge.
If I had the money, I’d buy the USS Independence and refurbish it in to a cruise ship, while retaining it’s launching/landing capabilities.
I’d also buy some old Navy F4’s, hire some retired jet-jockeys and mechanics and book week-long “Carrier-Based Jet Camp” cruises. The pilots would take participants up in the old fighter jets for flights around the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico.
The fee would include a total of, say, 120 minutes of flight time during the week, with a minimum of three launches and three arresting hook landings.
Apart from the carrier deck and flight operations, I’d convert the ship so that it had typical cruise-ship style berthing, dining, and activities.
A week at “camp” would be very expensive, but I’ll bet there would be a lot of people who’d pay it.
IF I had the money...
Washington State floating bridges have a history of sinking in storms (Hood Canal, Lake Washington). I’m sure they’ll find a way to sink the carriers too.
Give Obama and the libs enough time and all our carriers will be decommissioned.
If Obama has his way, they’ll build it with Nimitz-class carriers.
Almost as Dumb as the Elevator to Space
I remember my parents driving us from Tacoma to Bremerton to see the Mighty
Mo, moored there at the time. The distance around that inlet does not warrant the expense of any kind of bridge.
It only shortens the trip by 3-5 miles. What a waste.
$90,000 wasted, or maybe debt accumulated to keep government jobs instead of laying off unnecessary work force. In the REAL world, you cut jobs where you can, not spend more money you don’t have so you can keep a non-productive work force.
This is just another peek at how our government pisses away billion$.