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The Gravina Island Bridge, commonly referred to as the "Bridge to Nowhere", was a proposed bridge to replace the ferry that currently connects the town of Ketchikan, Alaska, United States, with Gravina Island, an island that contains the Ketchikan International Airport as well as 50 residents. The bridge was projected to cost $398 million.
The Gravina Island Bridge proposal, was a plan to build a highway bridge across the Tongass Narrows from Revillagigedo Island to Gravina Island. It became the subject of national controversy as critics called the plan a "bridge to nowhere" while attacking its proposed cost of $320 million. [ 7 ]
Since Gravina Island only had a population of 50, the bridge became known as the "Bridge to Nowhere" during the run-up to the 2008 presidential election. [ 45 ] In 2014, Alaska's longest bridge, the Tanana River Bridge , was completed across the Tanana River at a cost of $187 million.
Gravina Island is an island in the Gravina Islands of the Alexander Archipelago in southeastern Alaska. It is 21 miles (34 km) long and about 9.5 miles (15.3 km) wide, [1] with a land area of 94.81 square miles (245.6 km 2). The island had a population of 50 people at the 2000 census. The Spanish explorer Jacinto Caamaño named the Gravina ...
A car crosses the newly completed Dry Creek Bridge in the Fresno County foothills on Friday, April 19, 2024. The $4.8 million project was funded by federal transportation funds and the state gas ...
Without adjusting for inflation and using 2016 dollars, the cost to rehabilitate and retrofit the bridge now but replace it later on would cost $172 million, as opposed to $127 million for a one ...
Gravina Island, as seen from Ketchikan. The Gravina Island Highway begins at a cul-de-sac on the coast of Gravina Island, at the point where the originally proposed bridge would have spanned. [3] The highway then proceeds westward, as a two-lane, unpaved gravel road. After a short length, the road turns northward, passing a few small lakes, and ...
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