State says the Seward Highway project will make it safer. Critics call it a boondoggle.

The Alaska Department of Transportation is planning major changes to the stretch of the Seward Highway between Anchorage and Girdwood. State officials say the project will make important improvements on a dangerous stretch of road. But the plan is raising the hackles of some Anchorage policy makers, who say it’s the wrong fix in the wrong place.

Anchorage Assembly member Daniel Volland is one of them.

“I’m still unconvinced that a highway widening project is going to create more safety,” he said…

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