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[Alps]

Have there been any updates/discussions on the Glenn to Seward Highway connection in Anchorage? This seems to be one of the largest potential transportation projects in the state, by virtue of affecting its largest city.

Last time I heard of it being seriously proposed it died again.

[froggie]

Speaking of highway connections, I recently discovered a project to build a DDI at the Steese Expwy/Johansen Expwy junction in Fairbanks.  The Steese (AK 2) would be the through route.  The project will also build a backage road connection between Farmers Loop Rd and the Johansen/Northside Blvd intersection.  Construction isn't expected before 2024.

[Quillz]

I've been to Fairbanks a few times and that intersection does get a lot of traffic, much more than I would have expected for a small town. A DDI makes sense.

[hurricanehink]

Has there been any update about the freeway connection between the Seward and Glenn Highways in Anchorage?

[Alps]

Has there been any update about the freeway connection between the Seward and Glenn Highways in Anchorage?

Fictional.

[Plutonic Panda]

Has there been any update about the freeway connection between the Seward and Glenn Highways in Anchorage?

Fictional.

Are there any new proposed freeways in Alaska at the moment?

[oscar]

Are there any new proposed freeways in Alaska at the moment?

Not any I'm aware of.

[vdeane]

Has there been any update about the freeway connection between the Seward and Glenn Highways in Anchorage?

Fictional.

Sounds like it's one of those roads that's perpetually studied, like CT 11:
http://www.sewardglennmobility.com/FAQs.html#9

[Alps]

Has there been any update about the freeway connection between the Seward and Glenn Highways in Anchorage?

Fictional.

Sounds like it's one of those roads that's perpetually studied, like CT 11:
http://www.sewardglennmobility.com/FAQs.html#9

Yup but has even less of a chance of being completed through the city. Better chance of I-A201 getting done as a beltway someday.

[Kniwt]

Anchorage Daily News updates the status of the proposed 100-mile West Sustina Access Road:
https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/mat-su/2022/02/12/plans-for-a-disputed-mega-road-through-the-susitna-valley-backcountry-are-moving-forward-again/

A nearly decade-old proposal for a 100-mile road through the rugged backcountry west of the Susitna River is moving forward again, generating optimism for new mines and public access but also concerns over potential threats to a sprawling wildlife-rich remote area close to Alaska’s urban center.

Currently estimated at more than $350 million, the West Susitna Access road as proposed would run from Point MacKenzie to the Yentna Mining District in the Alaska Range, where numerous mining companies are eying potentially lucrative deposits.

... Now work on the project’s third phase, the two-year process of getting federal wetlands permits, is starting after the Mat-Su Borough Assembly voted to support AIDEA’s work on the permits.

... The road would bisect a roughly Vermont-sized area dotted with cabins and lodges that depend on the remote character of the area, a destination for fishing, hunting, subsistence activities, dog mushing and snowmachining.

Critics including wilderness lodge owners say that, given the lack of immediate timber or coal prospects, the road would basically subsidize foreign mining activities at the expense of the remote character and fish and wildlife that attract people now.

[Plutonic Panda]

It’s not like there isn’t hundreds of millions of other acres in Alaska that are untouched.

[Stephane Dumas]

There was a landslide who cut the road linking Seward to Lowell Point.
https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/2022/05/09/work-begins-on-clearing-huge-lowell-point-landslide/

Workers have started to clear a vast landslide that severed the community of Lowell Point, outside Seward, from its only road access Saturday. But officials have warned it could be up to two weeks before the road is fully usable again.

The access road to Lowell Point has seen smaller avalanches and landslides from the steep slopes of Bear Mountain. But on Saturday at about 7:30 p.m. a tumble of dirt and trees an estimated 200 feet long and 300 feet wide came down, burying the narrow road.

“The mountain just shed,” said City Clerk Brenda Ballou said.

No injuries were reported, and no problems related to the large debris field that spilled into Resurrection Bay have been recorded, Ballou said Monday. The city set up a shelter but no one had needed it as of Monday, she said.

On Monday, contractors used excavators to begin the process of hauling away the dirt. The debris field is estimated at 40,000 cubic yards, Ballou said.

[Rothman]

Landslide personified.

[Plutonic Panda]

Landslide personified.

Nyhe build them on there with beans it won’t prevent future landslides but tunnels will. Alaska will need a new freeway network and soon.