A bridge to nowhere is a bridge where one or both ends are broken or incomplete and does not lead anywhere. There are three main origins for these bridges:
- The bridge was never completed, because of the cost, or because of property rights.
- One end or both end has collapsed or have been destroyed – e.g., by earthquake, storm, flood, or war.
- The bridge is not used, but was not demolished because of the cost. For instance, the bridges on abandoned railway line.
Further, bridge to nowhere is also used by political opponents to describe a bridge (or proposed bridge) that serve low-population areas at high cost.
Read more about Bridge To Nowhere: Bridges To Unpopulated or Low Population Areas
Famous quotes containing the word bridge:
“It launch’d forth filament, filament, filament, out of itself,
Ever unreeling them, ever tirelessly speeding them.
And you O my soul where you stand,
Surrounded, detached, in measureless oceans of space,
Ceaselessly musing, venturing, throwing, seeking the spheres to connect them,
Till the bridge you will need be form’d, till the ductile anchor hold,
Till the gossamer thread you fling catch somewhere, O, my soul.”
—Walt Whitman (1819–1892)