Lawmaker proposed building toll bridge using old aircraft carriers

A Washington state lawmaker has proposed laying at least two retired aircraft carriers end-to-end as a toll bridge to ease traffic congestion in Puget Sound.

Aerial Bremerton Shipyard November 2012
By Jelson25 (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons

Chris Johnson, a spokesman for Naval Sea Systems Command in Washington D.C., said the plan was a longshot because neither of those ships were available, and all such ships decommissioned in the future are scheduled to be scrapped.

Source: Alert 5