[ RadSafe ] Government and money

[Richard L. Hess]

It's a little more complex than that.
http://www.gravina-access.com/Default.htm
http://www.dot.state.ak.us/stwdplng/projectinfo/ser/Gravina/index.shtml
Since I am a fan of Alaska (though now living in Aurora, Ontario), I 
thought I'd look and see what this was about. It's about connecting 
the city of Ketchikan to its airport by road rather than ferry. From 
the map, it looks as if the 5.9-mile figure includes all the access 
roads as well as the bridges (there are two).

Now, whether or not this is worth it, I cannot say, but certainly a 
city should have a road connection to its airport.

It's also about growth--and creating the ability to grow.

Cheers,

Richard

At 11:21 AM 8/14/2005, jjcohen at prodigy.net wrote:


>     Maybe we should not complain so much about the needless 
> squandering of resources on low-dose radiation control. Note the following:
>
>"The highway bill just passed by our Republican Congress (with the 
>president's blessing), at $286.4 BILLION is the most expensive 
>public works legislation ever passed," he writes.
>
>"The National Taxpayers Union put it best when describing one of the 
>more offensive projects in the bill: $220 million for a 5.9-mile 
>bridge connecting Gravina Island (population 50) to the Alaskan 
>mainland. The cost of the bridge alone would be enough to buy every 
>island resident his own personal Lear jet.'

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