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A project to connect Nome, 160 kilometers (100 mi) from the strait, to the rest of Alaska by a paved highway (part of Alaska Route 2) has been proposed by the Alaskan state government, although the very high cost ($2.3 to $2.7 billion, about $3 million per kilometer, or $5 million per mile) has so far prevented construction. [27]
The Million Dollar Bridge, which had carried trains until the CR&NW shut down, was converted for highway use. It is one of two discontinuous segments of Alaska Route 10 . The road extended only slightly beyond the bridge when the Good Friday earthquake of 1964 halted construction and severely damaged the Million Dollar Bridge, collapsing the ...
The Knik Arm Bridge and connecting roads would provide a secondary north/south roadway to Wasilla. There is concern, however, that the only paved connecting road on the Matanuska/Susitna Borough side of the bridge, which is the Knik Goose Bay Road, is presently overcapacity and listed as one of the four most dangerous roads in the state. [16]
The Yukon River Bridge, officially known as the E. L. Patton Bridge, is a girder bridge spanning the Yukon River in Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area, Alaska, United States. The bridge carries both the Dalton Highway and the Alaska Pipeline in connecting Fairbanks with Deadhorse near the Arctic Ocean and the Prudhoe Bay Oil Field. It is the only bridge ...
This map compares the area of Alaska (shown in red) to that of the 48 contiguous United States. Date: 29 September 2007: Source: Based on Image:BlankMap-USA-states-Canada-provinces,_HI_closer.svg by Lokal_Profil: Author: 121a0012: Permission (Reusing this file)
Tanana River Bridge is a bridge over the Tanana River in Alaska, United States. It is 3,300 feet (1,000 m) long, making it the longest bridge in Alaska, and it was completed in August 2014. [1] It is planned as a combined road and railroad bridge, but the first years it will be a road bridge only.
Nov. 20—A pickup truck fell from the Muldoon Road overpass Sunday evening and landed upside down on the Glenn Highway after the driver lost control on black ice, police said. The driver, who ...
[3] [4] The colloquial term "Lower 48" [5] is also used, especially in relation to Alaska. The related but distinct term continental United States includes Alaska, which is also on North America, but separated from the 48 states by British Columbia in Canada, but excludes Hawaii and all the insular areas in the Caribbean and the Pacific. [1] [6]