Greetings from Juneau

[dave1013]

Hello, I am glad to be a member of this group.  I've found a lot of interesting items here and hope I can contribute some!

[US81]

Welcome!

[hotdogPi]

Welcome from Massachusetts!

[Alex]

Welcome to the board!

[Brandon]

I'll bet you can contribute quite a bit.  We don't have too many members from Alaska. 

Greetings from just outside the corrupt quarter of Illinois.

[oscar]

I'm glad to see you here. I'm interested in Alaska roads (we might've had an e-mail exchange last summer about some highways in your area), and try to cover Alaska transportation topics from four time zones away, but it's nice to have someone in a better official and geographic position to discuss them.

[1995hoo]

Welcome. I loved Juneau when we visited. I haven't gotten to explore the roads in Alaska, but I would very much like to go back and have the chance to do so.

[Zeffy]

Welcome aboard! 

[dave1013]

I'm glad to see you here. I'm interested in Alaska roads (we might've had an e-mail exchange last summer about some highways in your area), and try to cover Alaska transportation topics from four time zones away, but it's nice to have someone in a better official and geographic position to discuss them.

Glad to oblige.  Are you the fellow who wrote to inquire about an Alaska Highway 7 shield in Petersburg?

All questions welcome.

For starters, here's some interesting photos (in 2 parts on Facebook) I took in Hyder ~3 years ago during a visit to inspect one of our projects.  Hyder is a pretty remote community here in Southeast, located approx. 50 miles northeast of Ketchikan.  Up until shortly before this trip, I thought the only two border crossings in Southeast were at Haines and Skagway - but we have a third one in Hyder.

Not a lot of sign pictures - hope that's okay.

Enjoy!

deleted - see below

deleted - see below   

[freebrickproductions]

Welcome from Alabama!
I visited Alaska several years back and I found it rather chilly. I was somewhat surprised to see kids cooling off in a river from a glacier melting even though it was about 60° that day!

[rickmastfan67]

Welcome to the forums Dave, and you've now been setup in the DOT group.

[SignGeek101]

Welcome from windy Winnipeg!

[nexus73]

I'm glad to see you here. I'm interested in Alaska roads (we might've had an e-mail exchange last summer about some highways in your area), and try to cover Alaska transportation topics from four time zones away, but it's nice to have someone in a better official and geographic position to discuss them.

Glad to oblige.  Are you the fellow who wrote to inquire about an Alaska Highway 7 shield in Petersburg?

All questions welcome.

For starters, here's some interesting photos (in 2 parts on Facebook) I took in Hyder ~3 years ago during a visit to inspect one of our projects.  Hyder is a pretty remote community here in Southeast, located approx. 50 miles northeast of Ketchikan.  Up until shortly before this trip, I thought the only two border crossings in Southeast were at Haines and Skagway - but we have a third one in Hyder.

Not a lot of sign pictures - hope that's okay.

Enjoy!

Part I   

Part II   

Went to look and got this:


This content is currently unavailable
.

The page you requested cannot be displayed right now. It may be temporarily unavailable, the link you clicked on may have expired, or you may not have permission to view this page.

You can post images on these forums if you like.  I know I would enjoy seeing them!

Rick

[oscar]

I'm glad to see you here. I'm interested in Alaska roads (we might've had an e-mail exchange last summer about some highways in your area), and try to cover Alaska transportation topics from four time zones away, but it's nice to have someone in a better official and geographic position to discuss them.

Glad to oblige.  Are you the fellow who wrote to inquire about an Alaska Highway 7 shield in Petersburg?

Yes. I recognize your full name from the Facebook link to your photos that you posted (non-working, as someone else noted -- perhaps because I don't have a Facebook account). 

I last visited Hyder in 1994, before Canada opened the customs station on its side of the border (still none on the U.S. side?). I'll be curious what (if anything) else has changed. 

[dave1013]

I'm glad to see you here. I'm interested in Alaska roads (we might've had an e-mail exchange last summer about some highways in your area), and try to cover Alaska transportation topics from four time zones away, but it's nice to have someone in a better official and geographic position to discuss them.

Glad to oblige.  Are you the fellow who wrote to inquire about an Alaska Highway 7 shield in Petersburg?

Yes. I recognize your full name from the Facebook link to your photos that you posted (non-working, as someone else noted -- perhaps because I don't have a Facebook account). 

I last visited Hyder in 1994, before Canada opened the customs station on its side of the border (still none on the U.S. side?). I'll be curious what (if anything) else has changed.

OK I know what the deal is with the links.  I have my FB account locked down.  Ooops.  I will post the pics somewhere else.  I should have remembered that before posting.  Sorry for the inconvenience.

Still no customs station on the US side of the border.  That is unlikely to change in our lifetime as the road meanders thru Hyder and then back into Canada.  There's no place to run!

The big change is that our project paved Salmon River Road.  One of the photos shows the new gutter pan that went down before the driving surface.

[empirestate]

The first time I ever set foot in Alaska was in Juneau. There were four ships in delivering some 10,000 passengers, and the temperature was about 75° with clear skies. So when people ask my first impression of Alaska, I answer "Hot and crowded!"

My favorite "roads" feature of the state is all of the boardwalks and stair streets in the southeastern cities. Juneau has some, and of course Ketchikan has a whole lot more. I've never been able to find a good Internet source talking about these, let alone any maps detailed enough to really show them. (I did what I could in Open Street Map for Ketchikan...)

[dave1013]

The first time I ever set foot in Alaska was in Juneau. There were four ships in delivering some 10,000 passengers, and the temperature was about 75° with clear skies. So when people ask my first impression of Alaska, I answer "Hot and crowded!"

My favorite "roads" feature of the state is all of the boardwalks and stair streets in the southeastern cities. Juneau has some, and of course Ketchikan has a whole lot more. I've never been able to find a good Internet source talking about these, let alone any maps detailed enough to really show them. (I did what I could in Open Street Map for Ketchikan...)

Ya, it's 75 and crowded here all the time!   

I'll see what I can do about finding more info on the stairs.  I don't think they are in our right-of-way but will start there.

[dave1013]

I'm glad to see you here. I'm interested in Alaska roads (we might've had an e-mail exchange last summer about some highways in your area), and try to cover Alaska transportation topics from four time zones away, but it's nice to have someone in a better official and geographic position to discuss them.

Glad to oblige.  Are you the fellow who wrote to inquire about an Alaska Highway 7 shield in Petersburg?

All questions welcome.

For starters, here's some interesting photos (in 2 parts on Facebook) I took in Hyder ~3 years ago during a visit to inspect one of our projects.  Hyder is a pretty remote community here in Southeast, located approx. 50 miles northeast of Ketchikan.  Up until shortly before this trip, I thought the only two border crossings in Southeast were at Haines and Skagway - but we have a third one in Hyder.

Not a lot of sign pictures - hope that's okay.

OK, I assembled a Powerpoint that contains the pertinent photos and associated explanatory text, and uploaded it to the space my ISP gives me for personal storage.  You can access it from here - it appears to work as it should.  For me, it was quicker to save the file and then open in Powerpoint than open it directly.  Your mileage may vary.  Enjoy!

[dave1013]

The first time I ever set foot in Alaska was in Juneau. There were four ships in delivering some 10,000 passengers, and the temperature was about 75° with clear skies. So when people ask my first impression of Alaska, I answer "Hot and crowded!"

My favorite "roads" feature of the state is all of the boardwalks and stair streets in the southeastern cities. Juneau has some, and of course Ketchikan has a whole lot more. I've never been able to find a good Internet source talking about these, let alone any maps detailed enough to really show them. (I did what I could in Open Street Map for Ketchikan...)

There's only one we know of in KTN that's ours and it's off the main drag.

[dgolub]

Welcome from New York City!  I've never been to Alaska, but it sounds (and looks from the photos I've seen) like a really interesting state.  I definitely want to go some day.

[dave1013]

Welcome from New York City!  I've never been to Alaska, but it sounds (and looks from the photos I've seen) like a really interesting state.  I definitely want to go some day.

Thanks for the welcome and I hope you do come for a visit someday!

Every American should see firsthand what their $7.2 million bought lo these 148 years ago.

[MillTheRoadgeek]

Welcome, from the amazing land of Northern Virginia. I'm BatteryMill (MillTheRoadgeek), and you should be great here! (sorry if I'm a bit late)

[xcellntbuy]

Greetings from the antebellum capital of Georgia--Milledgeville.

[empirestate]

"Antebellum"–now there's a word that didn't turn out to mean what I thought it would.

[xcellntbuy]

You see a lot of antebellum references in middle Georgia.  US 441 south from Interstate 20 in Madison, GA is the Antebellum Trail to Milledgeville.  From metro Atlanta southeast to Milledgeville, it is an area of much farm land, the beautiful Oconee National Forest and now home to two large man-made lakes, Lake Sinclair and Lake Oconee.

When driving back from business meetings in metro Atlanta, I have often tried to imagine what this area looked like in 1864 as General Sherman marched with the Union Army to capture Milledgeville after capturing Atlanta, then just a railroad hub of 9000 people.  When the 32,000-strong Union Army reached Milledgeville, a city of just 17,000, he stormed the building my current employer, Georgia Military College, affectionately calls the Old Capitol, held a mock legislative session to repeal secession and took all the cannon ringing Old Capitol hill.