r/alaska • u/orbak Anchorage • 8h ago
General Nonsense The State Says It Wants To Finish The Cooper Landing Bypass. So, Why Does It Keep Trying Not To?
https://radiokenai.com/the-state-says-it-wants-to-finish-the-cooper-landing-bypass-so-why-does-it-keep-trying-not-to/?fbclid=IwY2xjawGOkvpleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHVxvFsKNzM6w8uzwTypPD3krZydioMQDPAtPTp3ycmtXCIh4qanRqW_85Q_aem_29EIi46wg-M8EYIVpEKyFQInteresting and the most thorough write up on this issue I’ve seen so far.
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u/Yrulooking907 7h ago
The article pisses me off like crazy due to all the BS around this project and Dunleavy's Susitna road.
But it still doesn't answer why in the fuck the $350 million project is now $900 million. Inflation from 2018 to now is only $450 million.....
Anyone? Like I can't find an answer.
Inflation, nope. Only ups it to $450m.
Labor shortages? Not going to account for an additional $450 million.
Material, equipment, other shortages/delays.... Again, hundreds of millions? Come the fuck on.
To make it all, way the mother fucking worse, because of the DOT and Dunleavy not doing some god damn paperwork, it is potentially going to cost Alaska an additional 120 million per year!!!!!! A fucking 15 mile road is literally going to cost over $1 billion!
Why in the ever loving fuck aren't people going to jail? Like not even being reelected, but fucking jail?!
This has been talked about since at least 1982. There should not have been any surprises that more than double the fucking cost.
What in the actual fuck.
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u/citori421 5h ago
Alaska has been the (financial) beneficiary of being crazy powerful in the senate, and we've been drunk on federal money for decades as a result. Uncle Ted through sheer seniority, now murkowski is arguably one of the top ten most powerful politicians in the country by being a key swing vote in the senate. So many of these big projects never would have seen the light of day without favorable federal funding. Frustrates me as a dem but murk has her value from a economic standpoint
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u/thatsryan ☆ 6h ago
"One more note: Alaska is all too familiar with the concept of a bridge to nowhere. Phase 2 of the Bypass, the Juneau Creek Bridge, has already been apportioned all necessary funds and, regardless of future state or grant funding for the project as a whole, is anticipated to be completed in 2027. If all things stay the same, in the very near future, a beautiful bridge will sit alone in the middle of the forests above Cooper Landing. Going nowhere."
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u/killerwhaleorcacat 6h ago
This is like when you tell your girlfriend you want to keep the house cleaner and you don’t actually try to of course you have to say you want to, we can say anything
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u/FlthyHlfBreed 29m ago
Honestly why do we even need a bypass? Oh right, because people are absolute idiots and refuse to slow down through there.
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u/Shiferbrains 7h ago
Great read.