Travelers are encouraged to check road conditions at 511.alaska.gov before traveling (Fairbanks, Alaska) – The Road to Tanana and Rampart Road are now open for travel. Alaska Department of Transportation & Public Facilities (DOPT&PF) will perform regular maintenance now through October 1. Beginning mid-March, maintenance crews conducted snow removal, and thawed culverts, to restore the […]
Four grants awarded via Safe Streets and Roads for All Program WASHINGTON – Friday, Representative Mary Sattler Peltola (AK-AL) announced $25,515,000 in new funding for Alaska via the Safe Streets and Roads for All (SS4A) program. The SS4A program, created through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, funds regional, local, and Tribal planning, demonstration, and construction projects […]
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While driving Alaska’s graveled highways, people sometimes wonder how an unpaved road can turn into a bed of corduroy. Keith Mather had the same question about roads in his home country of Australia and then later in his adopted home of Alaska. He wrote a paper about washboard roads in 1963, the same year he […]