State House considers study of using old aircraft carriers as bridges

Published 9:55 pm Monday, April 13, 2015

Wired.com reports, “If a highway budget that just cleared the Washington state House of Representatives becomes law, state officials will spend $90,000 investigating the feasibility of building a highly unusual bridge fashioned from decommissioned aircraft carriers.”

“The bridge, should it be built, would be about a mile long. It would span Sinclair Inlet, connecting Bremerton and Port Orchard …”

Alex Davies’ report on Wired.com is titled, “Turning old aircraft carriers into bridges is a bad idea.”