Well, it turned out that the State of Alaska started building highway infrastructure on Gravina Island in anticipation of the bridge, before they secured the money for it. Still, it works out to about $50,000 per resident.” That would have benefited 8,000 residents rather than 50.
Actually it was intended to replace the ferry and connect Ketchikan to its airport. “It was portrayed in the media as a bridge for the 50 residents of Gravina Island. Remember the Bridge to Nowhere in Ketchikan, Alaska? A few years ago I said,
Lakeview Drive was to have stretched along the north shore of Fontana Lake, from Bryson City to Fontana, 30 miles to the west… But Lakeview Drive fell victim to an environmental issue and construction was stopped, with the road ending at a tunnel, about six miles into the park… The legal issue of whether to build the road was finally resolved in February, 2010 when the US Department of Interior signed a settlement agreement to pay Swain County $52 million in lieu of building the road.” “The Federal government promised to replace Highway 288 with a new road. The most commonly referenced Road to Nowhere seemed to be one in Great Smokey Mountains National Park ( map). Fortunately there were still decent examples in the wild that hadn’t made it onto the pages of 12MC yet. I had to go figurative because the literal examples simply weren’t cutting it and I still had a lot of space to fill in the article. I typically thought of Georgia as the home of boiled peanuts when they came to mind so its prominent placement in the video made perfect sense. So that probably explains why I never considered them a delicacy. They also seemed far more common further south than where I lived. They always seemed much too salty and mushy to me.
I never developed a taste for boiled peanuts despite growing up in the South. It featured numerous homes and businesses along its multi-mile length, including Big Tom’s Christmas Trees.ĭid I mention the boiled peanuts? - I guess you didn’t watch the video, right? Best of all it included the glorious intersection of Nowhere Road and Nowhere Lane ( map)! That spot might be able to make a legitimate claim to being the best middle of nowhere anywhere, or at least the crossroads of nowhere, even though it didn’t necessarily seem to be all that nowhere. It was pretty significant too, stretching a little more than 9 miles (14.5 kilometres). There were just as many songs and movies about Nowhere Roads as there were Roads to Nowhere.Įventually I found a decent, real world Nowhere Road outside of Athens, Georgia. If Road to Nowhere might be a problem then perhaps Nowhere Road might offer a solution. Then I shifted gears a bit and tried another approach. Nonetheless, I scrounged through my online sources and discovered a small handful. Abundant pop culture references made it difficult to find any actual roads called Road to Nowhere.
Then there were two or three films with the title. Atop that layered several songs titled Road to Nowhere, like the one from Talking Heads released in 1985 or a completely different one from Ozzy Osbourne in 1991. I ran into an immediate issue, the overwhelming figurative usage of Road to Nowhere describing journeys to extremely remote places or as a metaphor representing life’s unproductive tangents.
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