Felton Street Extension North: Palmer-Wasilla Highway to Bogard
Felton Street Extension North: Palmer-Wasilla Highway to Bogard
Project Scope
This project will extend and upgrade Felton Street from the Palmer-Wasilla Highway to Bogard Road. Improvements will include travel lanes, shoulders, pedestrian/bicycle amenities, drainage, and safety.
Project development will include design, utility relocation, and construction.
Benefits
This project will provide a new north-south collector level road between the Palmer-Wasilla Highway and the recently completed Bogard Road Extension East project. This connection should reduce traffic on portions of both the Palmer-Wasilla Highway and Bogard Road.
Currently 49th State Street is the only north-south connection that is constructed to collector road standards in the four-mile stretch between the Glenn Highway and Trunk Road. The lack of other connectivity means drivers have to travel significant distances on the Palmer-Wasilla Highway to find a connection that allows travel to the north. The same can be said for traffic travelling on Bogard Road that wants to travel south. This situation leads to congestion on our main arterial road systems.
Status
The Alaska Department of Transportation constructed a new intersection at the Palmer-Wasilla Highway and purchased right-of-way for the most southerly portion of this project.
The Borough designed and constructed a short section of the most northerly portion of this project (access to Palmer High School Pool) as part of the Bogard Road Extension East project.
Since that time, the borough has established right-of-way for the project along the east boundary of the Palmer High School property and developed a conceptual design.
Final design will be completed during the 2020-21 winter with anticipated start for construction in May 2021 and completion by end of October 2021.
Project Costs
The estimated budget for this project is approximately $2,500,000.
Brad Sworts, Division Manager
Pre-Design & Engineering Division
Capital Projects Department
1-907-861-7715
Bob Walden, PE, MSB Project Manager
Pre-Design & Engineering Division
Capital Projects Department
1-907-861-7726