The Other Bridge to Nowhere

From CQ Politics:

Most everyone by now has heard the story of how Palin canceled a $400 million bridge in the small coastal town of Ketchikan in order to save the federal government money, although the year before, while campaigning for governor, she had been all for the project. Some Republicans have adjusted to the revelations by presenting Palin as a “reformed earmarker.”

But there is a second bridge, more than twice as expensive and just as controversial, that Palin has expressed concern about but hasn’t tried to kill off. That project, the Knik Arm bridge, is in Anchorage near her hometown of Wasilla, and its construction would both improve commuting and aid the development of the Matanuska-Susitna, or Mat-Su, Valley where Palin lives.

...The history of the two bridge projects also shows that Palin halted the Ketchikan bridge and is reviewing the Anchorage span because the federal government was no longer likely to foot the entire bill — not because she worried that Washington was spending too much.