Essentially, there may be reduced shipping during the recession, but this project promises to be a fruitful one. At this point their planting a grove of trees in Government Hill where the Knik Arm Bridge was planned. You can certainly see how residents would be agitated in the valley. The point here, is the project should be finished. We may never see the bridge, but the port viable, and shipping to Alaska is not going to go away. Therefore, who is running for office in 2018 and will bring commerce in? Certainly with former Governor Sheffield's participation in AK Railroad and the Port Authority, there should be someone left that will advocate for a mega-project that actually has some fruit to bear. Let the bids roll.