Final Report

This is the continuation of a research project which I undertook several years ago for DOT&PF. I delivered the final report in June, 1983, entitled Alaska Road Commission Historical Narrative. Subsequently, the Alaska Historical Commission provided an editing and a pre-publication grant. The University Press of America, Inc. of Lanham, Maryland accepted the revised manuscript for publication and it was published in November 1986 entitled Paving Alaska's Trails: The Work of the Alaska Road Commission. The present report continues the narrative from 1956 to 1959.Prepared for: State of Alaska, Department of Transportation and Public Facilities, Division of Planning and Research. RSA No. 87NP027 between DOT&PF and the University of Alaska, FairbanksAlaska's Inclusion in the Federal-Aid Highway Act -- The Transition from the Alaska Road Commission to the Bureau of Public Roads -- The Plan for a Taku River Valley Road -- Fitting Alaska Into the Federal-Aid Highway System -- Transportation and the Northern Economy, Adapting the 1956 FAHA to the Territory and the Creation of the Alaska Department of Highways and Public Works -- Planning for a Southeastern Alaska Ferry System -- The Bureau of Public Roads Deals with Alaskan Conditions -- Alaska Statehood and the Transition -- Region 10 Under Contract to the State and a Slow Phase-Ou