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Thursday, June 05, 2008

In Juneau, Firm Resistance to a Road Out of Isolation (NY Times)

From The New York Times:

By William Yardley
Published: June 6, 2008

The proposed 51-mile Juneau Access Road would provide something this remote capital city has never had: an overland route to the rest of North America. No longer would people have to take a ferry or a flight.

Yet beyond the political and environmental fight that will determine whether the nearly $400 million road will ever be built, there is a central question: What would the improved access change the most, Juneau or outsiders’ perceptions of it?

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/06/us/06road.html

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