Local transportation officials say they don’t know what will happen if the transportation plan is rejected again.
is a federally required plan for highways, state ferries and general transportation projects to be implemented in Alaska through 2027.
Alaska legislators have been alarmed by the federal rejection of the state’s transportation plan, and the revelation that a litany of problems occurred during its development process. One particular sticking point were bridge improvement projects planned in the Interior that could be used for. Shannon McCarthy, a state transportation department spokeswoman, said Wednesday that those bridge projects were no longer in the plan.
project — a decades-old plan to divert traffic around the small and congested Kenai Peninsula community —needed to have its construction plans reworked last year after projected costs had more than doubled to $850 million since 2018. “I don’t know the consequences of another rejection,” he said Wednesday, later adding, “I hope the state gets a conditional approval in March, so the state can move forward with something. That’s my hope.”
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