>>any of you hear about the road to no where thing, apparently the bridge wasn't built, the money was kept BUT, 8 million us tax payers dollars were spent for the road to nowhere, it was supposed to be the road that would link with the bridge, but now since there isn't a bridge there, it's just there, and no one travels on it
NO ONEE... the toll collector they placed there, hasn't seen a car almost ever, the only people she collected the tolls was from the media who wanted to get in and go to the end of the road<<
Yeah what happened is that community asked for a bridge, Palin passed the request to Congress, AK's Republicans in Congress were going to earmark $700 million for a specific bridge, it became a national laughingstock, Palin opposed that bridge, to save face the AK Republican Senator stevens earmarked $$$$$$ to AK for "transportation" in the hope they'd take the hint and build the bridge anyway, Palin said they will build a connector for that town but something a lot cheaper than $700 million, and then spent the $$$$$$ all over Alaska as allowed for by Congress. That is how a lot of earmarks are worded, tehy specify the amount and the state government but don't name any specific project...but there's a handshake deal between the author and the state govt that a $35 million museum to cow fart measuring instruments will receive "priority"
So that is why there is a road to a bridget that hasn't been built yet.
In my county is a fwy called the 210. And it dead ends! A dead end fwy!!! Yeah there's a sign saying they'll connect it in 2013 and they start work 2009 BUT THERE"S A DEADEND FREEWAY!!!! BOOOOOSH STRIKES AGAIN
The core joke of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is that of course no civilization would develop personal computers with instant remote database recovery, and then waste this technology to find good drinks.
Steve Jobs has ruined this joke.