DOT decommissions Safety Corridor along KGB

On November 20, the Alaska Department of Transportation & Public Facilities (DOT&PF) announced that it had decommissioned nearly four miles of the Safety Corridor along Knik-Goose Bay Road.

The Safety Corridor now extends from Milepost 4.5, just south of the Knik-Goose Bay/Fairview-Clapp intersection, to its end point at Milepost 17.2.

The Knik-Goose Bay Safety Corridor is one of four Safety Corridors established in Alaska. KGB, along with the Seward Highway MP 87-117, the Parks Highway MP 44.5-53, and the Sterling Highway MP 83-93 have all been identified as having a higher-than-average incidence of fatal and serious injury crashes,

Safety Corridors were established to reduce these crashes by bringing together effective education, enforcement, engineering, and support for emergency response agencies.

This is the fourth Safety Corridor segment that has been decommissioned since the program was established – the Parks Highway MP 43.5-48.8 was decommissioned in 2016, the Seward Highway MP 87-90 in 2021, and the Parks Highway MP 48.8-52.3 in 2022 – bringing the total of safety corridor miles decommissioned to over 15.

The Knik-Goose Bay Road Reconstruction Phase 2 project, Sterling Safety Corridor Improvements MP 82.5 to 94 project, and Safer Seward Highway project will address the remaining safety corridors with safety upgrades.