Those are all great reasons to build it! We think big in Alaska...
In fact, Ketchikan residents just started driving on the most expensive stretch of road in the state....a Federally-funded two-lane project less than a mile long (an engineer friend just told me it's closer to a half-mile) that cost between 26 and 29MILLION DOLLARS (it's hard to nail down, I guess). This is in an ISOLATED community with a total population of less than 14,000 people.
And did you know the population is shrinking on an annual basis for the last several years? There is no pressure of expanding population there....the population is actually shrinking for the last several years!!
So after the recent $2000 per capita project, they now deserve a $22,500 per capita project. With no growth in sight.
The State of Alaska will be eager to accept any federal funds these days since they are collecting huge revenue in oil royalties.....high wellhead price = high revenue for the state. They can meet any match the Federal porkers can dish out.
Think about it.....$22,500 per man, woman and child.......that rate would give a city the size of Spokane, Washington FOUR BILLION DOLLARS plus. This is unprecedented, over-the-top, monument to stup.... oops, I'd better calm down, here.