Ketchikan's New Attraction - The Road to Nowhere

Well, surprise, surprise - another wrong reason to travel to Alaska, another “attraction” that shouldn’t be! And this time it’s a road!

With all eyes (and some of them none too friendly) on Governor Sarah Palin, John McCain's running mate, it has come to the attention of the press that Ketchikan, Alaska is now the proud owner of a “Road to Nowhere” and they’re laying the blame for it right on Sarah Palin’s doorstep.

Ketchikan has always been separated from its airport by a channel of water, so the idea of a bridge to the airport, saving the need for a ferry or water taxi ride, seemed a good one - on paper.

As controversy increased about the costs involved, however, Sarah Palin killed the project and has proudly proclaimed that she told Congress "thanks but no thanks".

Trouble is, she didn’t say “thanks but no thanks” to the road leading up to the bridge, which went ahead.

Oops!

Ketchikan now has a $25 million gravel road that goes nowhere - except the dead end where the bridge was going to be.

So now Alaska has another tourist site that visitors are flocking to see.

Not quite as bad as the rusting old bus where young idealist Christopher McCandless, now the subject of the hit movie “Into the Wild”, was found dead in September 1992. But not a whole lot better either.

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