{"id":1421,"date":"2020-03-31T13:05:59","date_gmt":"2020-03-31T22:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opinion.alaskapolicy.net\/pardonme\/?p=1421"},"modified":"2020-03-31T13:05:59","modified_gmt":"2020-03-31T22:05:59","slug":"deplorable-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opinion.alaskapolicy.net\/pardonme\/deplorable-design\/","title":{"rendered":"Deplorable Design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am sharing these photos to demonstrate the inadequacy of the designs we have to suffer in Anchorage. The photos are of a tunnel underneath Boniface Parkway in Anchorage, Alaska. The tunnel is part of a required route for students to walk to attend the local Elementary School that sits a few hundred feet from the East side of the tunnel.<\/p>\n<p>What are the issues we see in these photos?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The tunnel is not sealed from above, so water seeps into the tunnel from the road bed.<\/li>\n<li>The tunnel is not shielded from ice and debris plowed off the road above<\/li>\n<li>The ice and debris plowed of the road above piles up at the entrances to the tunnel (not shown here is a photo from some years ago where the snow wall created by the plowing covered half the height of the tunnel).<\/li>\n<li>The tunnel is at the lowest point of the trail on the West end, meaning that it serves as the sump for all water.<\/li>\n<li>There is a drain to the storm sewer a few feet to the East of the tunnel entrance on the East side, but that is frozen over half the year.<\/li>\n<li>As you can see, melt from outside the tunnel solely covers the entire tunnel eventually rendering the entire surface glassy.<\/li>\n<li>And, not seen in this photo, the lack of any trail lighting on the West side though this has been in the Master Plan for this area for DECADES.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Are there any reasons that these issues could not have been avoided? Two: a) failure to produce an adequate design, and\/or b) refusal to fund an adequate design.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-1424\" src=\"https:\/\/opinion.alaskapolicy.net\/pardonme\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3495-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"170\" height=\"226\" srcset=\"https:\/\/opinion.alaskapolicy.net\/pardonme\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3495-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/opinion.alaskapolicy.net\/pardonme\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3495-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/opinion.alaskapolicy.net\/pardonme\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3495-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/opinion.alaskapolicy.net\/pardonme\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3495-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/opinion.alaskapolicy.net\/pardonme\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_3495-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 170px) 100vw, 170px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-1422\" src=\"https:\/\/opinion.alaskapolicy.net\/pardonme\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8371-2-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"172\" height=\"229\" srcset=\"https:\/\/opinion.alaskapolicy.net\/pardonme\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8371-2-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/opinion.alaskapolicy.net\/pardonme\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8371-2-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/opinion.alaskapolicy.net\/pardonme\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8371-2-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/opinion.alaskapolicy.net\/pardonme\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8371-2-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/opinion.alaskapolicy.net\/pardonme\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8371-2-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 172px) 100vw, 172px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-1423\" src=\"https:\/\/opinion.alaskapolicy.net\/pardonme\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8131-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"174\" height=\"232\" srcset=\"https:\/\/opinion.alaskapolicy.net\/pardonme\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8131-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/opinion.alaskapolicy.net\/pardonme\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8131-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/opinion.alaskapolicy.net\/pardonme\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8131-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/opinion.alaskapolicy.net\/pardonme\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8131-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/opinion.alaskapolicy.net\/pardonme\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8131-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 174px) 100vw, 174px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am sharing these photos to demonstrate the inadequacy of the designs we have to suffer in Anchorage. The photos are of a tunnel underneath Boniface Parkway in Anchorage, Alaska. The tunnel is part of a required route for students to walk to attend the local Elementary School that sits a few hundred feet from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":714,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alaska","category-marc-grober"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opinion.alaskapolicy.net\/pardonme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opinion.alaskapolicy.net\/pardonme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opinion.alaskapolicy.net\/pardonme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opinion.alaskapolicy.net\/pardonme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/714"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opinion.alaskapolicy.net\/pardonme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/opinion.alaskapolicy.net\/pardonme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1425,"href":"https:\/\/opinion.alaskapolicy.net\/pardonme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421\/revisions\/1425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opinion.alaskapolicy.net\/pardonme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opinion.alaskapolicy.net\/pardonme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opinion.alaskapolicy.net\/pardonme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}