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Name: Michelle Davis on Feb 28, 2010Comments: I strongly support a bikepath on fairview loop. The road is dangerous for children or anyone who is out trying to get some exercise.Flag
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Name: Dawn Cowan on Mar 1, 2010Comments: Fairview Loop has become a very busy road. We need a bike path for the safety of the people who regularly use Fairview for biking, walking (the dog or going to school), and running. A bike path would be well used and has been needed for many years!Flag
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Name: Sabrina Shaw on Mar 1, 2010Comments: Our family strongly encourages amendment to scope of work to include a pedestrian path on Fairview Loop. It has been in planning for over a decade, the population in this area has tripled. There are more driveways and streets being connected all the time to Fairview Loop. Children and adults are on the roadway daily, being dodged by cars, cement mixers and trucks. Our boys walk to school, and everyday it is a worry. It dangerous year round for families to get out and walk or ride bikes to play at the only public playground in our area. With Fairview Loop being upgraded, now is the time to finally get this built, and make our road safe for everyone to walk to school. Please help enhance our community with safety. Thank you, Sabrina ShawFlag
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Name: Nancy Burnett on Mar 1, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Kim Short on Mar 3, 2010Comments: I think it dangerous for my daughter to stand on the corner of lookout off that big hill-it scares me so much specially in the dark winter mornings waiting for the bus and my neighbor s that runs every morning around 10:00am every morning -I'm afraid they will get hit!! I would very much support a pathway!!!!!!!!! Thanks KimFlag
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Name: Benjamin E Meyer on Mar 9, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Marian Elliott on Mar 9, 2010Comments: With plans to move Fairview Loop to hook up with the city of Wasilla's proposed Wasilla Bypass in the works, safety concerns for Snowshoe students are even more imperative. Fairrview Loop needs a bike path now.Flag
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Name: Sophie Harris on Mar 10, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Will Elliott on Mar 10, 2010Comments: To anyone skeptical that a bike path would benefit the whole community (rather than a few bicyclists), I would ask them to look at all the families and kids on the paths along Knik and Bogard Road, or the Palmer-Wasilla highway. Fairview Loop would see similar use, especially with Snowshoe Elementary, Wal-Mart, etc., either on the road or nearby. This isn't a special interest issue for cyclists; it's an issue of developing the community. If cost is an issue, consider what a bike path pays back. Studies on other cities have already done this, and their results shouldn't be ignored. Moreover, in 2008, the CDC placed Alaska is the 2nd highest percentile group for obesity rates; more than a quarter of Alaskans are obese. When we calculate the cost of a bike path, we need to factor in the real economic benefits that come when we teach our children healthy habits. Four-wheelers, young children, horses and dog walkers already share the ditch alongside Fairview Loop. Perhaps it could be paved as a multiple use trail, with a speed limit sufficient to prevent the kinds of fatal collisions that have occurred alongside the Knik Road. Simply riding on the road is no solution. I spent one summer riding to work along Fairview Loop to save on gas. While drivers were courteous, the non-existent shoulder and steep drop off mean there isn't room for a bike and two passing cars, despite bikes' legal right to the road.Flag
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Name: Karen Erickson on Mar 10, 2010Comments: Please provide a safety corridor by adding a bike path into your design plans. Thank you.Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Mar 13, 2010Comments: I drive Fariview Loop, and know the dangerous curves that make it an absolute hazard for bicyclists and other pedestrians to travel, it should have bike paths! We are in Wasilla, not Barrow!Flag
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Name: John F. Harris Jr. on Mar 13, 2010Comments: Right-of-Way along Fairview Loop varies from 60' to 100'. ADOT has two million dollars to spend for each mile of the eleven mile rehabilitation project. There is plenty of money and plenty of room for a pedestrian pathway. If ADOT refuses to constuct what has become a standard feature of any road project (PW Highway, KGB Road, Talkeetna Spur, Parks Highway) it is because we, their employers, let them. If ADOT's stated purpose for this project is to improve safety, they can't accomlish that without a pedestrian pathway. Snowshoe Elementary School (mile 8) students within a quarter mile are not served by school buses and are required to walk to school. They should be able to do this safely. There have been several vehicle versus pedestrian fatalities. ADOT would have a hard time defending its anti-pathway decision in the wake of child killed on Fairview Loop trying to walk to school. The clue phone is ringing. Pick up.Flag
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Name: Larissa Phillips on Mar 13, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Jeff Judd on Mar 13, 2010Comments: I strongly support the goal of getting the State of Alaska DOT to agree to incorporating a bike/pedistrian path and wider lanes and shoulders. The DOT got $22 million which is great, and much needed to restore the roadbed, but unequivocably inadequate if it is not enough to the job right and incorporate these quality of life and safety upgrades. It would be derelict for the State to spend $22M and not straighten out dangerous sections of the road, widen the road bed to enable shoulders, and provide a bike path. Why Mat-Su valley residents do not get the same level of consideration and investment in its major road improvement projects that Anchorage does is inconceivable. We truly are second class citizens to Anchorage residents when it comes to SOA investment in our roads. It's time that the residents of this area stand up and say enough! Treat us the same way that Anchorage residents are treated when it comes to road upgrades, safety, and pedestrian amenities. It is also inconceivable to me how the SOA DOT can take so long to get this project on track. The Alaska Legislature approved the $22M two years ago, and DOT is now saying that it will take through 2010 to complete surveying, and through 2011 to complete right of way acquisition, the construction if we're lucky in 2012. FIVE years from the funding approval to complete a project. It is know wonder why $22M is not enough to do the job right. If $22m is not enought to incorporate wider lands and pedestian paths then the DOT should go back to the Legislature citing their inadequacy in planning considerations and efficient carrying out of its responsibilities to do the right job within a reasonably period of time. All Fairview Loop residents should email their legislature representatives and voice their concerns in these regards. I know that I will be doing so. Jeff JuddFlag
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Name: Jeff Judd on Mar 13, 2010Comments: I strongly support the goal of getting the State of Alaska DOT to agree to incorporating a bike/pedistrian path and wider lanes and shoulders. The DOT got $22 million which is great, and much needed to restore the roadbed, but unequivocably inadequate if it is not enough to the job right and incorporate these quality of life and safety upgrades. It would be derelict for the State to spend $22M and not straighten out dangerous sections of the road, widen the road bed to enable shoulders, and provide a bike path. Why Mat-Su valley residents do not get the same level of consideration and investment in its major road improvement projects that Anchorage does is inconceivable. We truly are second class citizens to Anchorage residents when it comes to SOA investment in our roads. It's time that the residents of this area stand up and say enough! Treat us the same way that Anchorage residents are treated when it comes to road upgrades, safety, and pedestrian amenities. It is also inconceivable to me how the SOA DOT can take so long to get this project on track. The Alaska Legislature approved the $22M two years ago, and DOT is now saying that it will take through 2010 to complete surveying, and through 2011 to complete right of way acquisition, the construction if we're lucky in 2012. FIVE years from the funding approval to complete a project. It is know wonder why $22M is not enough to do the job right. If $22m is not enought to incorporate wider lands and pedestian paths then the DOT should go back to the Legislature citing their inadequacy in planning considerations and efficient carrying out of its responsibilities to do the right job within a reasonably period of time. All Fairview Loop residents should email their legislature representatives and voice their concerns in these regards. I know that I will be doing so. Jeff JuddFlag
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Name: Maddie Dickens on Mar 14, 2010Comments: We need this badlyFlag
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Name: Kim Short on Mar 14, 2010Comments: My daughter has to stand on the fairview loop road to get picked up for school and it is a steep incline road!! I'm afraid someone is goig to come down that big hill and hit her onthe road! PLEASE BUILD A BIKE PATH ON FAAIRVEIW LOOP!! All so my neighbors run every morning on the side of the raod and i'm afraid 1 of them are going to get hit!!! Thanks for the attention ! KimFlag
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Name: Rob Cowan on Mar 17, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Grayland Short on Mar 17, 2010Comments: our daughter stands on fairview loop to ketch the bus at 5:00 amFlag
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Name: ANNETTE MULLEN on Mar 17, 2010Comments: Children are in danger with out a walking / bike path. Countless times people dodge pedestrians. The amount of close calls list into the thousands. The actual amount of of tragedy is huge. There are 2 schools, elementary schools, on this one stretch of road. It is not a 30 mile per hour road. It is a 50 mile per hour motorway. It is dangerous beyond belief for mothers with strollers, joggers, walkers, children on bikes, children walking to school. There is nowhere to walk or bike on Fairview Loop Road. EVERY one is forced on to the same street as speeding 2 ton vehicles.Flag
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Name: Theresa Armitstead on Mar 17, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Tammy Bruce on Mar 18, 2010Comments: It's important to have this infrastructure for safety on this windy road. Not sure of the cost associated but would appreciate the consideration if feasible. In the least, a healthy widening.Flag
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Name: Mylissa Isachsen on Mar 18, 2010Comments: It would be so much safer for people to maintain their fitness, for students to get to school, and it'll keep the bikers off of the very curvy and dangerous blind spots of the roadFlag
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Name: Jackie Kuhn on Mar 18, 2010Comments: I support it fully!!Flag
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Name: Megan Orrell on Mar 19, 2010Comments: I have lived on Fairview Loop for 20 years now. Now that I have children and we take bicycle rides and walks often in the summer time, I have realized we desperatly need bikepaths! The majority of the traffic on this busy road travels very quickly and having children with bikes and in a stroller is very scary at times. I feel a bikepath would benefit a huge amount of families who live near this hugely traveled road.Flag
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Name: Michelle Greco on Mar 19, 2010Comments:Flag
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Name: Susan M. Wallin on Mar 20, 2010Comments: I live one mile from school and prefer to walk or bike. There is litlle or no shoulder and several creek overflows to deal with. Traffic here is heavy and fast at peak rush hours. If any road every needed a safe bike path it is this one!Flag
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Name: Deborah Miller on Mar 21, 2010Comments: Fairview Loop is in desperate need of a bike path for the safety of many.Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Mar 25, 2010Comments: I support inclusion of bike paths, esp. where a safe pathway is needed for kids to get to school. This is essential for safety and health maintenance.Flag
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Name: John F. Harris Jr on Mar 26, 2012Comments: I think that right now, while they are working on the road is the right time to build a pedestrian pathway. It's the most cost effective time to do the work.Flag
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Name: John F. Harris Jr on Mar 26, 2012Comments: I think that right now, while they are working on the road is the right time to build a pedestrian pathway. It's the most cost effective time to do the work.Flag
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