A week after record snowfall, several roads in Anchorage remain unplowed or only partially plowed. We spent the day driving around Anchorage assessing the condition of city roads. With another storm tonight, this problem appears to be getting worse, not better.
Anchorage cannot afford enough labor and equipment to clear the roads after these once in a decade storms. The city needs the help of the private sector in extreme circumstances. Why not set aside funds to hire private companies when the SHTF? Assembly gets to declare when it is bad enough to invoke the emergency funding – Assembly gets the credit. Mayor handles the dispatching – Mayor gets the credit. Aunt Dorothy is going to freak out when the plow leaves snow at the end of her driveway. The Assembly is going to hate the idea of working with the… Read more »
It’s winter in Alaska. If you spent your PFD on tires for your all or 4wheel drive them no problem. If you bought a TV and sit in front of it instead of working for a Alaska winter car your problem. This is no intended for the ill or handicapped. See you on the road.
I drive a 4wd pick up truck and have a hard time in my neighborhood when there is one lane for vehicles and then 3-4 foot berms that prevent anyone from making space for other vehicles.
Many streets have been turned into defacto one way streets.
My street was plowed for the first time on Monday at about 1030am. The plows made one lane and haven’t been back to my part of town since. Even the main roads around my neighborhood are barely passable for anything less than a large pickup or SUV. God forbid someone drives a sedan
I drive my all wheel Subaru with studded tires and have not been stuck yet and I share in your struggles as we all do with the plowing that’s happening. Whitty has a very valid point. Spend your free money on the NEEDS and not the WANTS.
Welcome to Biden’s America. I can’t say you voted for this, because chances are you didn’t, same as everyone else, but you can make a difference when the time comes.
Ohhh, please..give it a rest. Don’t you know you’re dying? Life is a brevity with no guarantee you get to spend the next moment of it and you want to spend it stressed out over political nonsense that is as old as earth and will be here long after you are forgotten and gone?
This is both the spend none mayor’s and the spend none governor’s fault. The unplowed streets are a giant demonstration of fafo for the ‘we don’t want to pay taxes, and pay us big pfds crowd’ who voted them in.
Er, aren’t Bronson and Dunleavy both anti-mask Trump supporters? I can’t help but harken back to the Berkowitz days……the roads were plowed then. Same for Sullivan, Begich, Mystrom, Knowles. Both Republicans and Democrats, but not incompetent political extremists.
Unacceptable Excellent video about the poor conditions of the roads after some 42 inches of snow or more have fallen in the Anchorage Bowl within the past 10 days. But it’s a cop-out at the end of this video for the narrator to mis-characterize the situation (paraphrasing), “The Assembly blames the mayor, and the mayor blames the Assembly.” No. Indeed, reporting in the Anchorage Daily News already has placed responsibility for this snow-removal fiasco pretty much where it belongs: squarely on City Hall and the Bronson Administration, after not listening to recommendations made months ago about the dire lack of… Read more »
Why can’t some trash trucks be equipped with plows like you see in other big cities? Why can’t private individuals with plowing vehicles be allowed to purchase necessary temporary liability insurance from the city and be allowed to plow? How long until the insurance companies let Bronson and his dedicated supporters know what it will cost when fire protection and other public safety services cannot be reliably provided during winter months
Then again, soon enough it will melt so Bronson/Dunleavy et.al. can focus on the PFD bribe and the anti-science, anti-“woke” dogma that keeps them in office.