They're interested in a far less expensive redesign of Gambell and Ingra streets to be neighborhood friendly, with lower speed limits and fewer lanes.
Right now, a pair of four-lane, one-way streets slice through Anchorage’s Fairview neighborhood to connect two of Southcentral Alaska’s major highways, the Seward and Glenn. Or, as Assembly Vice Chair Meg Zaletel recently put it, a “giant monstrosity that cuts through the heart of Anchorage.”
This map shows Alternative D of the Alaska Department of Transportation’s Seward to Glenn highway connection study, which calls for building a highway bypass through Anchorage’s Airport Heights neighborhood, with a viaduct over park land. DOT “As a transportation planner, it’s our responsibility in AMATS to say whether or not alternatives that are brought forward can be paid for,” Jongenelen told the Anchorage Assembly, at a meeting where state transportation officials and their consultants walked through the concepts. “And, no, I’ll say it right now, we can’t afford this stuff.
“And so I really don’t know why we’re going through this exercise,” she said. “You’re going to have a piece of funding missing where some neighborhood’s gonna have to – and Fairview has – live with the consequences of the unfunded idea for decades and decades.”.” That is, with non-motorized users in mind, instead of as an afterthought. That would likely mean fewer vehicle lanes, lower speed limits, safer sidewalks, better crosswalks and bike-friendly improvements.
Lindsey Hajduk is with the nonprofit NeighborWorks Alaska, which is partnered with the Fairview Community Council looking for solutions to repair damage to the community caused by the existing highway connection. “But we do have major concerns about some of these options,” Hajduk said.
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