{"id":1008,"date":"2018-07-10T14:40:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-10T21:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/alaska-dot-plans-changes-to-valley-intersection\/"},"modified":"2018-08-13T13:02:54","modified_gmt":"2018-08-13T20:02:54","slug":"alaska-dot-plans-changes-to-valley-intersection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/home\/alaska-dot-plans-changes-to-valley-intersection\/","title":{"rendered":"Alaska DOT plans changes to Valley intersection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities will host an open house from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Wednesday night to hear from members of the public about <a href=\"http:\/\/juneauempire.com\/local\/news\/2018-06-18\/valley-intersection-may-get-redesign\" target=\"_blank\">plans to fix traffic congestion at the intersection of Riverside Drive and Stephen Richards Memorial Drive in the Mendenhall <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/juneauempire.com\/local\/news\/2018-06-18\/valley-intersection-may-get-redesign\" target=\"_blank\">Valley<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The open house is scheduled to take place at the Mendenhall Valley Public Library.<\/p>\n<p>According to DOT, changes are needed at the intersection because peak rush-hour delays are about two and a half times as long as the state&rsquo;s goal for an intersection.<\/p>\n<p>(The average vehicle waits for 89 seconds during morning and evening rush hours at the intersection. The goal is no more than 35 seconds.)<\/p>\n<p>By 2040, according to DOT projections, that wait will be even longer unless DOT makes changes.<\/p>\n<p>DOT is considering <a href=\"http:\/\/dot.alaska.gov\/sereg\/projects\/jnu_riverside_stephen_richards\/assets\/20180625_Concept-Boards.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">eight options for the intersection<\/a>, including leaving it as-is. Alternatives include a roundabout, stoplight, adding turn lanes, or making it a two-way stop.<\/p>\n<p>The Federal Highway Administration would pay 91 percent of the cost of any changes; the City and Borough of Juneau would pick up the remaining 9 percent. Potential total costs range between nothing to $1.8 million.<\/p>\n<p>Construction could take place as early as 2020.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>\u2022 Contact reporter James Brooks at jbrooks@juneauempire.com or 523-2258.<\/b><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An open house at 5-7 p.m. tonight is planned to fix traffic congestion at the intersection of Riverside Drive and Stephen Richards Memorial Drive. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":426,"featured_media":1009,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":9,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[75,111],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-1008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-news","tag-local-news","tag-road-construction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/426"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1008"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=1008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}