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Washington — Proposals of Senator Ernest Gruening (D-A laska) for construction of a bas ic system of throughways in A laska is illustrated by this pair of “before and after” photo graphs. The first shows the existing road system in Alaska. In the second, the senator points out how the system would be expan ded under his program. Senator Gruening has pro posed that the Public Works Committee of the Senate visit Alaska after adjournment this year to study Alaska’s highway needs. He has received encour aging support from Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson (D Tex.),Senator Chavez (D-N.M.), chairman of the Public Works Committee, and Senator Pat MiccNamara (D-Mich.), chairman of the Public Roads Subcom mittee. The main elements of the Greening highway plan are as follows: (1) Completion of the Copper River Highway from Cordova via Chitna to McCarthy and its extension to a junction with the Alaska Highway; (2) Construction of a road aralleling the Alaska Railroad from Nenana via McKinley Park to Talkeetna and Willow, SOL,aS to provide a second though route from Fairbanks to An chorage; (3) Completion of Highway 97 from Fairbanks to Nome and Teller; (4) Provision of a road from Talkeetna via McGrath to a jun ction with highway 97 at Ruby, so as to give Anchorage access to northwestern Alaska. Ferry System— (5) Provision of a southeastern Alaska ferry system on a fast and frequent schedule linking Prince Rupert with Haines and with stops at Ketchikan, Wran gell, Petersburg, Juneau and Skagway; (6) Construction of a road from McGrath to Dillingham to tie Bristol Bay into the rest of the state overland; (7) Construction of a road from Unalakleet to the Yukon River and a junction with High way $7? at Koyukuk; (8) Closing of the Eagle Cir cle link; (9) Extension of the road from Nabesna to a junction with the Alaska Highway; (10) Completion of a cutoff from the Glenn Highway to the Denali Highway via Lake Lou ise; (11) Building of a highway across Baranof Island from Sitka to Warm Springs so that Sitka may be tied into the ferry sys tem; (12) Completion of the Hyda burg-Craig-Hollis road so that the west coast of Prince of Wales Island may be linked with the ferry. Petersburg to ‘A’ Route— (13) Building of roads from southeastern Alaska cities (all depending upon Canadian co operation in construction on their side of the border), so as to connect Skagway with Car cross, Juneau with Atlin, Peters burg and Wrangell with Tele graph Creek and Ketchikan with an extension of the “A” Route northward from Hazelton, B.C. Senator Gruening advocates this construction over the next ten years to correct a situation which leaves Alaska unique a mong the states in that few of its cities are connected with others by road.
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Petersburg Press
Petersburg, Alaska, US
Fri, May 01, 1959
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