Bridges To Unpopulated or Low Population Areas
Russia
- Bridge to Russky Island was criticised as a 'bridge to nowhere', serving an island where only 5,000 people live.
United States
- Gravina Island Bridge (never built), a proposed road bridge over the Tongass Narrows connecting the town of Ketchikan, Alaska to their airport, and 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 and 2012 US 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 Alaska, first envisioned in the 1950s
- Vincent Thomas Bridge (built 1963), a 1.85 km road bridge over Los Angeles Harbor in California, originally dubbed a "bridge to nowhere" but later becoming a heavily used bridge
United Kingdom
- Humber Bridge built for political reasons.
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