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March 25, 2015

Alaska DOT shifts money away from bike projects

  • Bike Anchorage President Brian Litmans called the decision a major setback. More design work would have made more projects ready for construction.

    • ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The Alaska Department of Transportation has shifted more than $1 million designated in 2012 for design of Anchorage bicycle infrastructure to other projects and bike advocates say it's a setback for improving safety in Alaska's largest city.

    More than 125 people in 2012 wrote to Anchorage Metropolitan Area Transportation Solutions, the federally funded group responsible for transportation projects in the city, to advocate for bike project design money.


     
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