Imagine the maintenance costs on the ramps on either end of that bridge, and if you ever ever get a drought condition or flood condition.

So we have a classic example of infrastructure not keeping up with population growth. I understand that. Common problem everywhere. I guess the question is would this bridge be the cheapest option? I guess if you can talk the Navy into donating the carriers it very well could be.

Big difference between a purpose-built floating bridge and a nearly 60 year old ship being re-purposed as a floating bridge. One is reasonable, one is a bat shit crazy idea that's asking for failure.

It actually makes a lot of sense when you consider how bad the intersection of Highway 16 and 3 are in Gorst. It was built when the population of the county was something like 1/20th of today and currently about a quarter of the modern population of the county crosses through there daily. Bypassing it would be great.…

My first thought was blocking the sound, but that looks like a non-issue...

Oh yeah I think it would be cheap (just line them up!) but the amount of material that could be salvaged from those ships should be a lot more than what is needed for making a comparable bridge.

This is kinda intriguing, but if you go look at a map of the location, I have to ask why they even need a bridge there? It's at the back end of a bay and the bridge would only cut out about 5 miles of the drive around the bay. Do we really need to spend any money at all for such a minimal savings? This sure looks…

In my opinion this would be an incredible wasteful way to make a bridge, there quite a lot more steel in those carriers to make a proper bridge.

In fantasy land: Awesome!