Sausalito, if my Bay area history is any good, was a full sized community and by the 1920s, that town was a hub of transportation as US Highway 101 ended there, and there were ferry systems. When the Golden Gate Bridge was built in the late 1930s, Hwy 101 was able to bypassed Sausalito and go straight into SF as they do now and most of the ferry systems gave up the ghost. It was no boonies, host of people lived in that county.

To Pete Carroll, I understand what you are saying but if you want to make the land boom, you got to do it on it own. Bridge should be build only when there is something to connect it with. Bridge that cost billions should not have to spur development. There are tons of lands in the Anchorage Bowl area and Matsu, only one who will benefit for that bridge would be people who owned land on the other side. Look how poorly that ferry system works out? Bridges are built to connect communities, not to start one.