A white elephant is a possession that its owner cannot dispose of without extreme difficulty, and whose cost, particularly that of maintenance, is out of proportion to its usefulness. In modern usage,
A white elephant at the Amarapura Palace in 1855
Boothtown Aqueduct, Western Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
A bridge to nowhere is a bridge where one or both ends are broken, incomplete, or unconnected to any roads. If it is an overpass or an interchange, the term overpass to nowhere or interchange to nowhe
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…Hills Like White Elephants Bridge to nowhere Escalation of commitment (sunk cost fallacy…
A highway bridge near Castrop-Rauxel, Germany – built in 1978 but not connected on either end
An overpass to nowhere in Summit, New Jersey: Brantwood Terrace Overpass, walled off on both ends
A former railway bridge over the Váci út in Újpest, Budapest, Hungary – with its rail line defunct in the early 1990s, the cityside approach of the bridge was demolished to create space for construction.
Bridge over the River Avon in Bristol that was originally intended as the entrance to the Bristol Arena. However, construction of the main building was halted due to lack of funds and this bridge is now left derelict.