Reply #2: He's building a 220 Million dollar bridge to serve a community of 8,000 [View All]

To help them avoid a $4.00 a pop ferry fee if they want to get to the airport.

I think that's 55 million rides on the ferry

Divided by the population of 15,000 for the entire island and you get something like 3,666 rides per citizen per life time, or one ride a day for more than ten years or one two way trip per week for about 28 years.

Alternatively the 15,000 citizens could each be bought their own boat instead.

- Now there is no indication any local labor will be used for this project, and it may even kill the tour boat industry through the need to re-route cruise ships.

Great thinking.

In case you are wondering? - apparently somebody is very eager to sell the land on the Airport side of the proposed bridge for mega bucks. -and if the bridge isn't built? it's just beautiful woodland.

Oh, last but not least- them's federal dollars go'nna build this lemon.