Cost of Bridge

[Bob Sheridan]

So sorry for the error on the cost of the controversial bridge.  Don't 
send me out to buy any bridges.   Here's a Taxpayers for Common Sense 
article with map (showing some kind of an airport) referring to a 
$billion in pork for Alaska and both $231 and $315 million for the BTN:

http://tinyurl.com/dem6f

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Douglas Laycock wrote:

> We're getting pretty far afield from con law, but since I also bit on 
> the $941 million number, I felt obliged to go back and check.
>  
> The Salon article throws numbers around ambiguously, but it looks like 
> this bridge is $223 million, there is another bridge near Anchorage at 
> $231 million, and $941 million is Alaska's total share of the bill, or 
> possibly Alaska's share of the bill in the first year.  It is hard to 
> tell.
>  
> The city's response appears in a later article, Alaska Town Says 
> Bridge Is Not Boondoogle, www.salon.com/wire/ap/D8D3S78G6.html 
> <http://www.salon.com/wire/ap/D8D3S78G6.html>
>  
> which argues that the city is out of land, and the only room for 
> growth is on the island, which is described as "relatively flat."  
> That story also reveals that the ferry runs year round -- every 15 
> minutes in summer and every 30 minutes in winter -- and that there are 
> also water taxis, so the ferry is not a monopoly.
>  
> Some locals, and a former Alaska highway commissioner, are quoted on 
> the side that it's a boondoggle.
>  
> Douglas Laycock
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