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A Trump Administration proposal to do away with much of the federal Essential Air Service subsidy could have a big impact on Kodiak Island travelers. The Essential Air Service program, which ...
The Homer City Council passed a resolution at their last regular meeting on Feb. 10, expressing support for the Homer Spit Transportation Resiliency project and endorsing efforts by the Alaska ...
During his presentation to the council, Holland said that at the request of the city, AKDOT project engineer Jason Baxley, who is also the project manager for the Homer Airport Improvement project, ...
AKDOT has disagreed, saying the project falls outside FAST Planning’s Metropolitan Planning Area (MPA). In their decision on the STIP amendment, the FHWA sided with FAST Planning.
In its rejection of the bridge replacement, FHWA’s Sept. 26 decision weighs in on a boundary dispute between AKDOT and Fairbanks Area Surface Transportation (FAST) Planning. Finding that FAST’s ...
Aurora is named for the design on the robot’s body, which is meant to look like the northern lights, or aurora borealis. “Aurora is the first of its kind wildlife hazard reduction robot,” AKDOT ...
In the Interior, the MPO is Fairbanks Area Surface Transportation (FAST) Planning, and the documents AKDOT must add in the STIP is FAST’s Transportation Improvement Program (TIP) and Metropolitan ...
It seems the answer is that the Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities (AKDOT&PF) has made it a priority to facilitate the hauling of privately owned gold ore (not freight) for ...
Image-AKDOT (Fairbanks, Alaska) — The Dalton Highway will close nightly to all traffic across the Koyukuk River bridge (MP 188.5) for 12 hours from 9 p.m. to 9 a.m. for emergency repairs to ...
To the editor: One of the most bizarre parts of the proposed Manh Choh-Fort Knox ore haul proposal is running ore haul trucks north and south across the roundabouts on ...
Although not contained in the approved FY2024 budget, the Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities (AKDOT&PF) now plans to replace or update five additional state highway bridges ...
Each year the Ketchikan Borough Lobbyist schedules meetings for the Ketchikan Delegation during the Legislative Session at the Capitol in Juneau. In recent years, the advocacy meetings have been ...