Bridge to Nowhere

Bridge to Nowhere

"Bridge to nowhere" may refer to:
*Any of several bridges in Alaska, including:
**Gravina Island Bridge (never built), a proposed road bridge over the Tongass Narrows to the town of Ketchikan, often cited as an example of politicians' pork barrel spending and a controversial topic of the 2008 U.S. presidential election campaigns
**Knik Arm Bridge (never built), a proposed road bridge over the Knik Arm portion of Cook Inlet, north of Anchorage, first envisioned in the 1950s
**Miles Glacier Bridge (built 1910), also known as the Million Dollar Bridge, converted from railroad to motor vehicle use and located at the northern end of the unfinished Copper River Highway, construction of which stopped in 1964 when an earthquake damaged the bridge
*Big Four Bridge (built 1895), an abandoned railroad bridge over the Ohio River in Louisville, Kentucky
*Bridge to Nowhere (built 1936), an isolated road bridge over the Mangapurua Stream in Whanganui National Park, North Island, New Zealand
*Bridge to Nowhere (built 1936), an isolated road bridge over the San Gabriel River in Southern California
*Fort Duquesne Bridge (built 1963), a road bridge over the Allegheny River in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, which ended mid-air until the ramps were completed in 1969
*Hoan Bridge (built 1973), a road bridge over the Milwaukee River in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, which was unused until access roads were completed in 1977, was lacking freeway connections at the southern end until 1998, and was "going nowhere again" for two months while closed for major repairs after a span partially collapsed in December 2000
*Luten Bridge (built 1925), also known as Mebane Bridge or Mebane's Bridge, a road bridge over the Dan River in Rockingham County, North Carolina
*M8 Bridge to Nowhere, two separate bridges over the M8 motorway in Glasgow, Scotland
*Vincent Thomas Bridge (built 1963), a road bridge over Los Angeles Harbor in California

Other uses:
*"Bridge to Nowhere", a song by singer/songwriter Sam Roberts
*"Bridge to Nowhere", a 1986 movie directed by Ian Mune
*"The Bridge to Nowhere", a 2008 movie directed by Blair Underwood

See also:
*Road to Nowhere (disambiguation)


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