last time we wanted a bridge to the airport

Post #290,250 by boxley 8/3/07 2:52:32 PM Reply	last time we wanted a bridge to the airport the entire country howled about not paying for it. Infrastructure is hugely expensive to build and once built no one wants to own maintenance costs. As a local bloviator said they had money for a new stadium, museums, bear exhibits but no money for bridge repair. thanx, bill Quantum materiae materietur marmota monax si marmota monax materiam possit materiari? Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free american and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 51 years. meep reach me at [link\|mailto:bill.oxley@cox.net\|mailto:bill.oxley@cox.net]
Post #290,291 by a6l6e6x 8/4/07 1:17:33 PM Reply	Please, not the bridge to nowhere. $250M for bridge to an island with 50 residents. There is no shortage of land in Alaska. Move the frickin airport! The Feds need to pass on the collected fuel taxes in a state to the state w/o Congressional pork barrel back room deals. If the Feds do minor coordination and monitoring of the proper expenditure of these funds we'd get much better return on the buck. Congress is unfit to make local decisions. Alex Nobody has a more sacred obligation to obey the law than those who make the law. -- Sophocles (496? - 406 BCE)
Post #290,299 by boxley 8/4/07 6:42:12 PM Reply	move the frikken airport where? to the mountain side? Quantum materiae materietur marmota monax si marmota monax materiam possit materiari? Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free american and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 51 years. meep reach me at [link\|mailto:bill.oxley@cox.net\|mailto:bill.oxley@cox.net]
Post #290,300 by Another Scott 8/4/07 6:58:40 PM Reply	Yeah, the geography's a problem. [link\|http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=gravina+island&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=37.462243,60.556641&ie=UTF8&ll=55.351793,-131.694489&spn=0.052604,0.118275&t=k&z=13&om=1\|Google Maps] for the proposed "Bridge to Nowhere" location. It doesn't look like a good use for the money. [link\|http://dir.salon.com/story/news/feature/2005/08/09/bridges/index.html\|Salon]'s story about it (and the other proposed bridge for Anchorage) makes it sound like a boondoggle. Sen. Stevens should have made a better case for it, rather than throwing tantrums, if it really was a good use for the money. My $0.02. Cheers, Scott.

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