A state road project designed to upgrade and improve 22 miles of the Haines Highway is slated to begin spring of 2014, pending approval of the project’s environmental analysis.
From miles 3.5 to 25.3, the Alaska Department of Transportation and Federal Highway Administration are proposing to straighten curves, widen shoulders, increase sight distances, replace the Wells Bridge and address long-term solutions to rock slide problems near miles 19 and 23.
The first phase of construction,…
