Actually the Golden Gate Bridge was not a "bridge to nowhere", Mr. Smith. If memory serves, Marin County was settled and there were ferry services between SF and Marin county for hundred years prior to the building of the Golden Gate Bridge. This is a direct contrast to Knik Bridge which led to no where, totally undeveloped land. Even with the Tappen Zee Bridge, it was build to connect New York Throughway with New England Throughway to help easing the congestion. Having been over that bridge several times, it definitely was worth the money to do so. Knik River Bridge had no real economic purpose unless to make people who owned land on the other side very rich at the expense of the American taxpayers.