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The Gravina Access Bridge Mega-Project
This nearly $400 million project was cancelled by Governor Palin on September 21, 2007. As of fall 2007, however, the state is continuing to build the 3-mile Gravina Access Highway on lightly-populated Gravina Island using funds from a $48 million dollar federal earmark. This “highway” will end at a beach, where the bridge is not scheduled to be built. The Alaska Transportation Priorities Project urges Governor Palin to either return the earmark money to the federal government to demonstrate her fiscal responsibility or to ask Senator Ted Stevens and Congressman Don Young to agree to reprogram that money for sensible transportation purposes, including road upgrades in Ketchikan.
This nearly $400 million project was cancelled by Governor Palin on September 21, 2007. As of fall 2007, however, the state is continuing to build the 3-mile Gravina Access Highway on lightly-populated Gravina Island using funds from a $48 million dollar federal earmark. This “highway” will end at a beach, where the bridge is not scheduled to be built. The Alaska Transportation Priorities Project urges Governor Palin to either return the earmark money to the federal government to demonstrate her fiscal responsibility or to ask Senator Ted Stevens and Congressman Don Young to agree to reprogram that money for sensible transportation purposes, including road upgrades in Ketchikan.