Anchorage pedestrians navigate a post-snowstorm obstacle course

In some places, sidewalks and walking paths remained consumed by jagged, crusty drifts so thoroughly it was hard to tell if there had ever been a sidewalk there to begin with. In other areas, mini-plows had tunneled deep, precise paths for walkers and bikers.

Out on Tudor Road, Wheeler was one of those trying to pick their way through hardened deposits of plowed snow.Jamal Wheeler looks at his cold fingers while walking to a hospital along Tudor Road on Friday. Near the spot where Tudor Road curves into Muldoon, tufts of cloud turned pink behind the mountains as the sun began a midmorning rise.

She would have taken a different route, but a moose was loitering near her trail, and she’d decided to walk along the highway for a stretch instead. Over in Mountain View, Mary Nick was hustling to the bus stop to get to her health care job, wearing a warm parka her sister had made her 30 years ago. Some streets were scoured clean while others were rutted enough to throw a truck around.In her neighborhood, the roads had been so bad and the bus stop was unplowed for the first day or two of the storm, Nick said. Her neighbor had offered a ride to work. But Friday, it looked like things had been plowed out and the bus stop was clear.

When you get a big snowstorm like this one it's just that a big snowstorm in the winter in Alaska I have not yet asked Mr snowstorm what his politics are sorry for putting Mr in there I guess it's it or the or whatever

Since the 1956 highway act, pedestrians have been an afterthought in everything related to movement around and through cities.

Let’s call this what it is: an obvious leadership failure, We can’t fix the failure until we fix the leadership.

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