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Mayors split on Juneau Access Road at Skagway summit

...Road would see the capital city's road system extended up to a proposed shuttle ferry terminal at the mouth of the Katzehin River, just across Lynn Canal from Haines.Previous plans called for the Road to link Juneau and Skagway directly, with...

http://juneauempire.com/state/2013-04-26/mayors-split-juneau-access-road-skagway
State
My Turn: Cost limits on ferries, but not 'the road'

...project. These ships would be part of the East Lynn Canal road plan, shuttling vehicles from a new terminal at the Katzehin River to Haines and Skagway.At first I was disappointed by this sudden change from one Taku-sized ship to two smaller...

http://juneauempire.com/opinion/2013-01-31/my-turn-cost-limits-ferries-not-road
Opinion
Governor's office stumps for new ferries

...Saturday.Kemp said the Environmental Impact Statement for the final miles of the 90-mile road from Juneau to the Katzehin River. From there, cars and passengers take a short ferry ride to Haines or Skagway. The new ferries would work on the...

http://juneauempire.com/state/2012-12-23/governors-office-stumps-new-ferries
State
Parnell abandons Juneau Road appeal

...ahead," he said. The state's current plan is to build a road 50.8 miles north of Juneau along Lynn Canal to the Katzehin River mouth, where a new ferry terminal would be built to connect to Haines and Skagway with shuttle ferries.It was most...

http://juneauempire.com/local/2011-09-15/parnell-abandons-juneau-road-appeal
Local
Ferry board weighs in on SE transportation plan

...state's decision to build the Juneau Access Project, the road between Auke Bay and a new ferry terminal at the Katzehin River and shuttle ferries to Haines and Skagway.That Environmental Impact Statement considered a Berners Bay terminal...

http://juneauempire.com/local/2011-10-19/ferry-board-weighs-se-transportation-pl
Local
Tongass trees cut to prepare for road

...official right-of-way easement for the Juneau access road, leading 50 miles from Juneau to a ferry terminal on the Katzehin River. The state also has not received a major water permit from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, needed before actual...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/051906/sta_20060519023.shtml
News
EPA critical of Skagway road study

...side of Lynn Canal that would terminate south of the Katzehin River Delta. Shuttle ferries would carry vehicles to Haines...road. The road would transit Berners Bay and the Katzehin River delta, and would affect wildlife and fish habitat...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/052505/sta_20050525007.shtml
News
Berners Bay

...10 miles south of Berners Bay. As many as 1,000 sea lions have been counted at a haulout at Grand Point near the Katzehin River, about 40 miles north of Berners Bay. Biologists suspect that animals from these and other smaller haulouts up and...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/052602/loc_bernersbay.shtml
News
Forest Service grants Tongass road access to state

...Forest Service land for the 50-mile road on the east side of Lynn Canal from Echo Cove to a ferry terminal at the Katzehin River. In one of the two letters sent this week to David Miller, the Alaska Division administrator for FHWA, Bschor wrote...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/052806/sta_20060528005.shtml
News
Road study expands to west side of Lynn Canal

...money." Yost said DOT also is studying an alternative that would result in construction of a road from Juneau to the Katzehin River, about five miles southeast of Haines on the east side of Lynn Canal. Two shuttle ferries would carry travelers...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/060403/loc_roadstudy.shtml
News

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