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Heh — The Bridge to Nowhere isn’t popular even when it is next door.

April 5th, 2007 by joby

Via Instapundit:

But all is not well in a city that looks on the new bridge with growing skepticism. Citing the project’s costs and risk to a local economy whose benefits are “contingent, speculative and not significant,” the city’s planning commission unanimously recommended against going ahead with the project.

Every neighborhood organization that has spoken to the project has recommended against the bridge or demanded guarantees that no Anchorage neighborhood would be harmed in its construction and city funds will not be used to build or maintain the bridge.

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