[bikepacker67]

Wow! Sounds like a great place to bicycle tour. Nice new roads, beautiful bridges, HARDLY ANY POPULATION.

I think I'll plan a trip to appreciate my portion of the tax bill.

[olezip]

Perhaps a bridge will attract more people to the area. Ketchikan may have a relatively small population, but it is on the Alaska Marine Highway and thus sees a lot of "traffic." Why not build a bridge that will last? Certainly pique's my interest in driving there.

[Dad yer funny]

yeah , but do yer bike tour when the bugs are at an ebb [pre-bugs or post-bugs ,LOL!!]

[porkchops 4 mahound]

Bite me Heather.

An entire US STATE with no new roads in thirty years, (ALASKA), because FEDERAL permits were not forthcoming. Not to mention the demonRAT b@stards on the East and Left coast who have kept our entire STATE tied up in deference to their Birkenstock wearing bunny hugging poesy sniffing know nothing voters.

You fail to mention the fact that the entire wealth of the Alaskan OIL pipeline, the pipeline that was built on the approved deal of splitting the royalties between the FEDERAL government and the STATE of ALASKA which was to be 10%feds /90% Alaska, in stated recognition that ALASKA is DIFFERENT than the lower 48. This deal that the Feds unilaterally, with the help of an demonRAT Governor and legislature, BROKE, so that now the FEDS get WAY more than 10%, and have for years.

This, (ALASKA), is a STATE, one of 50 equal STATES, the rest of you other 49 can't keep the entire FRIKKING STATE of ALASKA as a nature reserve, so you can feel OK about living in some urban/suburban hives. Or for any reason at all.

"We don't give a D@MN about how they do it OUTSIDE!"

As long as the rest of you other 49 US STATES get Federal Highways moneys, you don't have a d@mned VALID leg to bitch from.

I say again Heather, BITE ME!