Road work on a section of the Old Steese Highway seeks to improve safety after a series of accidents during a four-year period.
FAIRBANKS, Alaska - After a series of serious incidents along the corridor, the Alaska Dept. of Transportation is working to improve safety on part of the Old Steese Highway in Fox .
During a four-year period, there were a handful of incidents on this stretch of road including one fatal accident and two that caused damage to property. There are other safety concerns, such as the lack of a consistent or wide enough shoulder which led the DOT to conduct renovations on the highway. About six weeks ago, construction on the short stretch of highway began. “The goal of the project is to widen the road and give some shoulders and change some of the slopes to allow drivers to be more safe,” said Scott Doetsch, the project engineer. The project spans from “just a little south of the gold dredge...and goes all the way north... passed the brewery and the Steese Highway.”
To improve safety, the DOT is widening the road and increasing the embankment on turns while also creating consistent and sizable shoulders. “We had what was essentially no paved shoulder before,” Doetsch said. This meant cyclists using the shoulders had less space to avoid traffic and broken down vehicles had nowhere to pull off. “Once we’re done out here we’ll have 11 foot driving lanes and six foot shoulders,” Doetsch explained.
The majority of work on this project is already in the past and traffic disruptions will soon come to an end. “But we still have to do signage and striping and seeding,” said Doetsch.Two months after announcing purchasing arrangements, Contango completes acquisition of HighGoldMonths before new administration takes the helm, FNSB sees chief of staff change
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