LA Times got it right: Palin said yes to a road to nowhere

[liberal N proud]

Sarah Palin said yes, thanks, to a road to nowhere in Alaska

While seeking votes, she told Ketchikan residents she backed the 'bridge to nowhere.' As governor, she spent the money elsewhere and moved ahead with a $26-million road to the nonexistent bridge.
By Erika Hayasaki, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
September 19, 2008
GRAVINA ISLAND, ALASKA -- The 3.2-mile-long partially paved "road to nowhere" meanders from a small international airport on Gravina Island, home to 50 people, ending in a cul-de-sac close to a beach.

Crews are working to finish it. But no one knows when anyone will need to drive it.

That's because the $26-million road was designed to connect to the $398-million Gravina Island Bridge, more infamously known as the "bridge to nowhere." Alaskan officials thought federal money would pay for the bridge, but Gov. Sarah Palin killed the project after it was ridiculed and Congress rescinded the money. Plans for the road moved forward anyway.

Some residents of Ketchikan -- a city of 8,000 on a neighboring island where the bridge was to end -- see the road as a symbol of wasteful spending that Palin could have curtailed. Some of them even accuse her of deception.

http://www.latimes.com/news/la-na-bridge19-2008sep19,0,1092069.story?track=ntothtml


The road to the bridge to nowhere:

[curious one]

1. Who owns tha land? Someone will build around that road.

[lapfog_1]

2. Anyone want to bet that the head honchos at the

construction companies that built the "road to nowhere" have all made substantial contributions to Palin's campaign for governor... and now the Palin/McCaine '08 ticket?