Alaska has decided to spend $220 Million on a new bridge to connect the town of Ketchikan (Pop 8,000) with the island of Gravina (Pop 50).
This bridge will be longer than the Golden Gate Bridge.
What a fantastic idea! - I hear you say.
Yet some people, such as Senator Tom Coburn do not approve of the project.
You will be glad to hear that an effort to de-fund the so called "
Bridge to Nowhere", along with other pork barrel projects was resoundingly defeated in the Senate by an 82 - 15 vote.
Thank heavens. Those poor residents of Gravina Island have been waiting for a bridge for years.