Bridge to Nowhere

Bridge to Nowhere may refer to:

Bridges

Alaska

• 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' spending on projects that are intended primarily to benefit particular constituents, and a controversial topic of the 2008 U.S. presidential election campaigns
• Knik Arm Bridge (never built), a proposed 3.2 km 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 472 m bridge

Contiguous United States

• Big Four Bridge (built 1895), a 770 m single track railroad bridge over the Ohio River in Louisville, Kentucky, which was abandoned in 1968 and had both its approach spans removed and sold for scrap the following year
• Bridge to Nowhere (San Gabriel Mountains) (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 3 km 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, which was at the center of the landmark Luten Bridge Co. vs. Rockingham County lawsuit that made jurisprudence in 1929
• Vincent Thomas Bridge (built 1963), a 1.85 km road bridge over Los Angeles Harbor in California

New Zealand

• Bridge to Nowhere, New Zealand (built 1936), an isolated 40 m road bridge over the Mangapurua Stream in Whanganui National Park, North Island

Scotland

• M8 Bridge to Nowhere, two separate bridges over the M8 motorway in Glasgow: one eventually had an office block constructed on it; the other remains unfinished

Books and comics

• Bridge to Nowhere, by Yvonne Whittal (Harlequin Mills & Boon, 1989)
• Last Bridge to Nowhere, by Frank Prewitt (Publication Consultants, 2008)
• The Bridge to Nowhere (novel), by Megan McDonald (Orchard, 1993)
• The Bridge to Nowhere, 1986 The Transformers (Marvel Comics) story

Films

• Bridge to Nowhere (film) (1986), directed by Ian Mune
• Flying off the Bridge to Nowhere (1990), Rick Sebak documentary
• The Bridge to Nowhere (2009), directed by Blair Underwood

Music

• "Bridge to Nowhere", song from the album Are You Thinking What I'm Thinking? (2005) by The Like
• "Bridge to Nowhere" (song), from the album Chemical City (2006) by Sam Roberts
• "Bridge To Nowhere" (2008), song by Judith Owen

See also

• Road to Nowhere (disambiguation)
• White elephant
• Duddeston Viaduct, a disused railway viaduct in Birmingham, England commonly known as the "Viaduct to Nowhere"