The move is prompting outcry from elected officials and Anchorage residents who have long advocated for the project, which aims to connect the Spenard-area Fish Creek Trail to the Tony Knowles Coastal Trail.
Fish Creek crosses underneath railroad tracks on Friday, Dec. 6, 2024 in West Anchorage. The preferred routing for the Fish Creek Trail would run to the left of the tracks.
to the Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport and the Don Young Port of Alaska, delivering gasoline, diesel and jet fuel. A social trail follows signs for a Marathon petroleum pipeline, along the proposed path for the Fish Creek Trail extension, on Friday, Dec. 6, 2024 in West Anchorage. The fence at right was installed to keep people from getting too close to the adjacent railroad tracks.
That “demonstrates that this initiative is consistent with standard operations. It presents minimal infrastructure concerns,” Braniff said. “Because this is a major utility and would be quite expensive to relocate, and because any disruption would have significant economic implications, it makes more sense, and may be less costly, to deal with this issue right now before we advance the project further,” McCarthy said.J.L. McCarrey owns a property with a driveway that the north end of the trail route would cross.
Curry said Winfluence had worked with clients opposing the project to get staff members from the governor’s office and DOT Commissioner Ryan Anderson out for a tour of the properties to see what would happen to backyards such as Haxby’s. Winfluence has represented McCarrey in correspondence with the municipal attorney over the land rights dispute.
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