I fought the wide pathways and bike lanes on Jewel Lake Road Safety Improvements. Jewel Lake Road could have had a six-foot median for snow storage between traffic and a six-foot-wide pathway on both sides. The Department of Transportation chose to put in bike lanes that the Federal Highway Administration would not fund, so they called them “widened shoulders;” nobody uses them.
After putting in all of that unnecessary pavement, DOT&PF was not going to fund lighting on a School Safety Route. In the end, Sen. Mia Costello fought to get the lighting, but we still have snow on pathways instead of a median, and a bike lane nobody uses.
— Frank Rast
Anchorage
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