Alaska isn't unique with bridges to nowhere. South Dakota with the help of Tom Daschle has a bridge spanning the Missouri river that virtually has grass growing in the cracks from lack of use. This "vital" bridge links the small university town of Vermillion with a couple of "chickens in the street" hamlets in Nebraska and was paid for with federal money.
South Carolina was going to get one of these too. Jim Clyburn (former head of the Congressional Black Caucus, and a Rat of course) was pushing for tens of millions of dollars to build a nine-mile bridge between two tiny towns across a swamp in his district. Fortunately, he ran head-on into trouble...with the envirowackos not wanting the "precious wetlands" disturbed. I do love it when liberals eat their own.
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We have a bridge to nowhere in Burlington, Vermont that had to be built by federal law even though no one wanted it. Apparently if there are 2 pieces of parkland seperated by a road they have to be joined by a bridge. Insanity.