The Anchorage Transportation Fair

Walking in to the room, the first thing we saw was a sea of people. It seems that everybody wanted to find out what was going on in their particular corner of the city!

Information was certainly available! There were over 50 tables laid out end to end, curving around the room like a big snake. Each table had at least two or three projects displayed; a few even had eight to ten. They all had information brochures printed out with maps and pretty pictures, as well as an actual human being or two, standing by to answer any question you might have.

The kid’s activity table caught my eye, so that’s where we started. From there we just went from table to table, stopping to talk to this person or that one, and gathering up a bag full of fact sheets on each project.

In no time at all, I was completely overwhelmed. Who knew there was that much going on in this city! And to think that somewhere, somebody had to have some sort of control over it all, to ensure that it all got coordinated properly.

Anchorage does love its road construction, I guess.

The most important project in my opinion is, of course, the O’Malley Road Upgrades. I got to spend quite some time at that particular table, going over the maps and talking about what they had in mind for the area. I spoke with the girl sitting there about the schedule of events to take place, the plan for the intersection right at my house, and the other properties involved.

Strangely enough, however, the project we spent the most time on was for the Port of Anchorage. The Engineer manning that particular table talked to us for quite some time, explaining in detail what went wrong with the original plan and outlining the current revised plan. It will certainly be an amazing project if they can get the funding for it.

The whole evening was very interesting, and as a bonus I got a huge boost to my step count that day!