ABSTRACT
This chapter is about a proposed bridge across the Colorado River that is designed to reduce the auto and truck traffic that currently passes directly over Hoover Dam. This bridge, or bypass, will not reduce the volume of traffic over the Colorado River, but is expected to reduce the risk of traffic to the people of the US by keeping most of it off the road across Hoover Dam. Planning the construction of this bridge has involved a number of major environmental and cultural debates, and the decision to place the bridge on a major American Indian ceremonial mountain has raised issues of shifting risks from those currently borne by the dominant society to a minority population. These risks are being shifted by using ‘For the Greater Good’ arguments, while ignoring the cumulative cultural impacts already borne by the minority society and the irreparable nature of these new risks.
