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Extreme weather tough on transportation system

...builders imagined.Despite their concerns about intense rain, historic floods and record heat waves, some transportation planners find it too politically sensitive to say aloud a source of their weather worries: climate change.Political...

http://juneauempire.com/joan-lowy/2012-11-23/extreme-weather-tough-transportatio
New road to help Kake's chances for hydropower

...Alaska Marine Highway serves both Kake and Petersburg, while Petersburg is also served by Alaska Airlines.Transportation planners have also been seeking ways to simplify runs or reduce ferry costs, but Mike Neussl, deputy commissioner for...

http://juneauempire.com/local/2012-07-26/new-road-help-kakes-chances-hydropower
Local
Area transportation plan focuses on ferries

State transportation planners told Juneau residents Monday evening they were looking for places where ferry service could be cut match the realities of new funding...

http://juneauempire.com/local/2011-09-27/area-transit-plan-focuses-ferries
Local
Planes, ferries and automobiles - ways to get around

...travel, he said.Hughes said he knows the end result will be controversial, but that's just part of being a transportation planner."The problem these days is the fares are all too high, and there's not enough frequency of service," Hughes...

http://juneauempire.com/local/2012-01-18/planes-ferries-and-automobiles-ways-get
Local
Juneau projects included in new transportation plan

...Alaska has been relying on federal aid to maintain its state highway system," said Andy Hughes, Southeast transportation planner with the Department of Transportation and Public Facilities.Recognition of limited federal funding in the future...

http://juneauempire.com/local/2011-09-02/juneau-projects-included-new-transporta
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State seeks views on ferry, highway plans

...new Southeast Alaska Transportation Plan beginning at a meeting Monday at Centennial Hall. The department's transportation planners want to hear about several alternatives they're looking at, mostly revolving around the ferry system, including...

http://juneauempire.com/state/2011-09-25/state-seeks-views-ferry-highway-plans
State
My Turn: Ferry, road combination out of Juneau is win-win

...I plan to bury the hatchet and work with DOT to get this project going. Rich Poor is a lifelong resident of Juneau who has served on the Juneau Assembly and is a retired transportation planner for the Alaska Department of Transportation.

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/081505/opi_20050815001.shtml
Opinion
Planners suggest tourism solutions

Transportation planners offered a variety of alternatives Thursday night at Centennial Hall to ease tourism congestion on South Franklin Street. But some...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/090503/loc_planners.shtml
News
Recognitions

...DOWL HKM is pleased to announce the addition of Irene M. Gallion to its Juneau office. Gallion is a Transportation Planner and brings her experience as the Statewide Transportation Improvement Program Manager, Regional Highway Planner...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/013011/nei_778223374.shtml
Neighbors
State checks out storm damage to coast

...beneath a dozen homes, several warehouses, two stores and utility poles, said Tony Weyiouanna, the village transportation planner. "Every storm is scary, but this was probably one of the scariest," Weyiouanna said. "Waves were breaking...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/101802/sta_stomcoast.shtml
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