Buying just enough Bridge to leave you hanging - $200 million for perhaps never to be finished bridges to no where ($93.6 million this fiscal year on a span linking Anchorage and the borough of Matanuska-Susitna - a possible $600 million project with only $229 million of funding in hand, and the Ketchikan project connecting the town's airport to Revillagigedo Island, where most of the 13,000 residents of the Ketchikan Gateway Borough live, that will require $315 million but has only the left overs from this years $200 million that exist after the Matanuska-Susitna bridge partial build $93.6 million is paid for).
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/ALASKA_BRIDGES?SITE=FLTAM&SECTION=USAlaska Outlines Bridges' Spending Plan
By RACHEL D'ORO
Associated Press Writer
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- Alaska's governor outlined a plan Thursday to spend almost $200 million on two bridge projects, including one dubbed the "Bridge to Nowhere" that triggered sharp criticism across the nation.
Congress recently dropped its funding provisos for the bridges in Ketchikan and Anchorage, but let the state keep the money and left it up to state officials to figure out how to spend it.
Gov. Frank Murkowski in a budget proposal Thursday said he wants to use $91 million for the Ketchikan project in the fiscal year beginning in July.
The two-bridge project would connect the town's airport to Revillagigedo Island, where most of the 13,000 residents of the Ketchikan Gateway Borough live.
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