[konaice]

The sad fact is the Ketchikan bridge would serve less than forteen thousand (14,000) people.

Scuze me? Alaska Airlines carries 20 times that into and out of Ketchikan every year.

[skeptoid]

But they're passing thu. They do not get off the airplane. It's a short stop. A more accurate measure of traffic would be passengers on the four-minute ferry ride to the airport. MINUS the daily workers who cross.

And by the way, the time to travel to the airport will be longer with the bridge, since there are several miles of low-speed road involved. (versus the current short ferry ride)