“Dems Decry Continued Funding for ‘Bridges to Nowhere’.” To view this 3/3/11 National Journal story, please click here.This is pay-to-view content

“Cash for Knik bridge gets cool reaction from Alaska legislators.” To view this 2/16/11 ADN story, please click here[Dead link-this story is no longer online.].

“Knik Arm Crossing: A bridge too far?” To view this 2/15/11 Alaska Dispatch opinion piece by former legislator Andrew Halcro, please click here. Or view an archived copy here.

To see the White Paper entitled, “The Need for the 2011 Alaska Legislature to Examine the Financial Plans of the Knik Arm Bridge and Toll Authority” (February 2011) please view whitepaper11

Download the ROD document:
http://knikarmbridge.com/documents/121010FinalKnikArmCrossingROD.pdf
(PDF document, 18MB) [Dead link, the KABATA website is no longer online.]

Media Coverage: News

“Rail extension tops borough’s legislative funding priorities” To view this 12/23/10 ADN story please click here. [Dead link, this story is no longer online.]

“Bridge to somewhere?” To view this 12/20/10 Frontiersman story please click here. Or view an archived copy here.

“Knik Arm Bridge project goes forward.” To view this 12/16/10 Juneau Empire/AP story please click here. Or view an archived copy here.

“Knik Arm bridge route OK’d, but big obstacles remain.” To view this 12/16/10 ADN story please click here. [Dead link, this story is no longer online.]

“Knik Arm Bridge Gets Federal Approval.” To listen to this 12/16/10 KSKA audio report download the MP3 file from KSKA here. Or download an archived copy here.

“Knik Arm Bridge moves forward, and possibly back.” To view this 12/15/10 KTUU story please click here. [Dead link, this story is no longer online.]

“Miles of Knik Arm Bridge Access Road Construction OK’d.” To view this 12/15/10 KTVA video please click here. [Dead link, this story is no longer online.]

Media Coverage: Editorial

“Our view: Knik Arm crossing – Feds bless route, but backers lack compelling reason.”
To read this 12/16/10 ADN editorial please click here. [Dead link, this story is no longer online.]

“Knik Arm bridge critics question population estimates.” To view this 8/6/10 KTUU story, please click here. [Dead link, this story is no longer online.]

To see the Knik Arm Bridge and Toll Authority project presentation, please click here. [Dead link, the KABATA website no longer online.]

Comments on a draft version of the presentation delivered to the KABATA Board of Directors on April 29, 2010 from:

• Jamie Kenworthy, financial analyst, please click on this file: boardmtgtestjk410.
• Lois Epstein, Alaska Transportation Priorities Project Director, please click on this file: kabbd410.

By a unanimous vote, the Mat-Su Assembly passed a resolution supporting the Knik Arm Bridge on April 6, 2010 with several key conditions that must be met.

To view Resolution 10-28, please click here.

The language of the resolution’s key conditions follows:
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Borough Assembly supports the Knik Arm Bridge conditioned upon the receipt of federal or state funds to provide for needed public infrastructure on the Matanuska-Susitna Borough side of the bridge; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Assembly of the Matanuska-Susitna Brough requests that existing Knik Arm Bridge and Toll Authority (KABATA) project funds be used to complete a community impact assessment of the Big Lake community as well as initiate the engineering and design of Knik-Goose Bay Road, Burma Road, and South Big Lake Road; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that there will be a need for road and other infrastructure improvements including Knik Goose Bay Road, Burma Road, and South Big Lake Road on the Matnuska-Susitna Borough end of the Knik arm crossing when the bridge is built.

“Knik Bridge gets a shot in the arm.” To view this 3/26/10 KTVA story, please click here. [Dead link, this story is no longer online.]

“AMATS votes to keep Knik Arm bridge in city’s short-term plans.” To view this 3/26/10 KTUU story, please click here. [Dead link, this story is no longer online.]

“Tolls will not cover Knik bridge.” To view this 3/24/10 ADN Letter to the Editor, please click here. [Dead link, this letter is no longer online.]

“Anchorage Assembly Votes to Delay Knik Bridge.” To listen to this 3/17/10 APRN story, please click here.

“Assembly votes again to delay Knik Arm Bridge.” To view this 3/17/10 ADN story, please click here. [Dead link, this story is no longer online.]

“Assembly takes testimony on Knik Arm Bridge.” To view this 3/16/10 KTUU video and story, please click here. [Dead link, this story is no longer online.]

The decision-making body for transportation projects, the Anchorage Metropolitan Area Transportation Solutions (AMATS) Policy Committee, today voted 3-2 to keep the Knik Arm Bridge project in the short-term portion of the Anchorage Long Range Transportation Plan (LRTP). The three advisory committees to the Policy Committee – the Anchorage Planning and Zoning Commission, the AMATS Technical Advisory Committee, and the Anchorage Assembly – each voted in 2009 and 2010 to remove the bridge from the list of short-term projects. The five-member Policy Committee is composed of representatives from the Alaska Departments of Transportation and Environmental Conservation, Mayor Sullivan, and two representatives from the Anchor-age Assembly. The Assembly representatives (Flynn and Selkregg) alone voted to make the bridge a long-term project, i.e., post-2018 construction, because key financial and technical questions were not answered by the Knik Arm Bridge and Toll Authority during its testimony before the advisory committees.

To view the 3/25/10 Alaska Transportation Priorities Project media release. please click here. [Dead link, this release is no longer online.]

Following a public meeting on March 16, the Anchorage Assembly passed by a vote of 6-5 resolution 2010-40 [Dead link, this resolution is no longer online.] which recommends to the Anchorage Metropolitan Area Transportation Solutions (AMATS) Policy Committee that the Knik Arm Bridge be moved from the list of short-term projects to the list of long-term projects in the Anchorage Bowl 2025 Long-Range Transportation Plan.