1998 - Yukon-Kuslokwim Delta Transportation Plan

Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta Transportation Plan
Dynamic transportation for a land of diversity

The Y-K Delta region presents significant transportation challenges to the state.The large coastal villages have many needs. The lack of roads and cost-effective road building opportunities puts pressure on the region's other modes of transportation. With its growing population and increasing use of consumer products as well as traditional resources, the people of the Y-K Delta are placing ever greater demands on the existing transportation infrastructure.

Practical ways to improve transportation expressed in the Y-K Delta Transportation Plan include upgrading airports to improve safety and meet future demand, marking a network of winter trails to improve traveler safety, access mining road development in the Kuskokwim Mountains region to enhance regional economic diversification, Bering Sea port development, and river village barge mooring facilities.

The Y-K Delta Transportation Plan was developed over a three-year period with extensive involvement of a 14-member Advisory Committee made up of leaders from throughout the region. The planning effort culminated in the publishing of the plan in March 2002

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