Road Conditions Alaska and Yukon
I'm heading South from having driven up through BC, Yukon and Alaska and now am between Whitehorse and Teslin heading South. Here is an update on some road conditions. First: Alaska. The Richardson fr...
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PA12DRVR wrote:That's probably why Alaska DOT&PF has that test section on the Alaska Highway, I think just before the Tetlin NWR visitor's center, that has piping for air circulation through the berm.
On many of my trips, and remember, these are fading into the mists of time, the leg from the border to Tok or Northway or wherever, was often the slowest part of the trip.
Incidentally, State spending just on highway repaving-reconstruction projects in Alaska has nearly doubled since 2006. The total US CPI inflation from 2006 to 2017 is about 18 percent. So, Alaska is not skimping on road repair spending.
When your road reconstruction season is 4-5 months in most of interior Alaska and frost heave occurs every year in some road sections, it's impossible to fix every mile of damaged pavement every year. So, just because the Glenn Highway may have been bad years ago and is bad now, it doesn't mean it hasn't been rebuilt between those years. In fact, the section immediately west of Glennallen was being reconstructed when we last drove it 4 years ago.
