“This is not just a waste, it’s a burden,” Pease said in an interview. Nancy Pease, photographed February 24, 2023.
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They said more lanes will promote more speeding and pollution, and put drivers and other users in danger. Nancy Pease, a board member of the Rabbit Creek Community Council south of the project, recently joined two others in calling the roundabout interchange a boondoggle in an opinion article in the Daily News.
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They say the money should be spent to upgrade older, state-maintained roads with more pressing needs, such as Fireweed Lane, rather than building new ones that increase the state’s maintenance challenges. They point out that traffic in the area has dropped or flattened as other roads have been built, shopping and commuting habits have changed, and the city’s population has declined. A federal grant will cover 93% of the project, with the state contributing the rest. The double roundabout at Scooter will help connect both sides of the highway in that area, and address concerns about kids dashing across lanes to the Dimond Center mall, they say. State road planners say the project will improve safety for drivers, pedestrians and cyclists, and create 2 miles each of bike lanes and sidewalks. Plans for the 1.5-mile stretch of highway in South Anchorage include raising it to create a roundabout interchange linking Scooter Avenue with Academy Drive adding the equivalent of two lanes with a new northbound lane plus frontage and ramp improvements and constructing the state’s second “diverging diamond” interchange with criss-crossing lanes at the O’Malley underpass. The Anchorage Assembly and some community members want the state to reconsider a $130 million Seward Highway expansion project that has long been in the works.Īfter years of planning, construction on the O’Malley Road to Dimond Boulevard project is expected to start late this summer, with completion in 2025, state transportation planners say. The Scooter Avenue and Seward Highway intersection, photographed on Tuesday, Nov.
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