DOT&PF is proposing to widen part of the Seward Highway between Anchorage and Girdwood into a sprawling four-lane divided highway plus a new frontage road. They’re calling it a safety project, but after reviewing the Draft Environmental Assessment (EA), Bike Anchorage believes the EA reads like a post-hoc justification for massive highway widening, not an objective review of the data and options.
We all want a safer Seward Highway. The problem is, there are real ways to improve safety without turning Turnagain Arm into a super-wide, super-fast racetrack, and those options were not given a fair evaluation. Here's an overview of what's wrong with the proposal:
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In 2024, fifteen pedestrians were hit by drivers and killed in Anchorage. We called it a crisis, stood up a Vision Zero Task Force, held press conferences and wrote op-eds, and made a plan to reverse course.
Now, in the final weeks of 2025, we’ve actually gotten worse. Fifteen pedestrians plus one bicyclist have died on our roads so far this year, and it’s not over yet.
It’s horrible, and we’re all looking for answers. How does this keep happening? How do we stop these needless deaths? Who is to blame?
So, let’s look at the facts and figure out what’s going on so that we never see another year this deadly.
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