Comment: This peice either steers way around  valid arguaments against or simply ignores facts, lets start with the biggie. It is NOT a road connecting to the road system, this is the same sort of misinformation KABATA used when they showed a conceptual drawing showing a two lane road. It is a road to a ferry and we have a ferry, it is also a road with avalanche prone sections.  This notion of oh its " free money" has to stop; look people federal money is tax  money and that only pays for constuction. Whcih if you use federal highway dollrs and take it for this pork it WILL reduce the amount for other needs like maintenance and upgrades.