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Location: The Knik Arm north of Cairn Point (north of both Port MacKenzie and Anchorage).

Length: The vehicular toll bridge will be 2.7 miles long with nineteen miles of connecting roadway in the Mat-Su Borough and Anchorage.

Current Funding: Project development through the environmental and permitting phase.

Construction Cost: Roughly estimated at $650-700 million to come from congressional appropriations (TEA-LU), state and local grants, and public and private sector investment, including KABATA revenue bonds with user fees.

Authorization: Alaska Statute 19.75.011

Schedule: The final Environmental Impact Statement was published in 2008, and the Record of Decision is anticipated in 2010. Construction could begin as early as 2012, with the bridge opening in 2016.

360 view anchorage
360 view Port of Anchorage

360 view mackenzie
360 view Port MacKenzie

flyover video
Flyover Knik Arm

Mat-Su Borough
Milepost 0 to West Approach with text

Milepost 0 to East Abutment, low altitude

Anchorage
Port North-South

Port South-North

Quick Bridge flyover East to West

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The Knik Arm Crossing Project is being developed to meet the current and projected transportation needs of the Municipality of Anchorage and the Mat-Su Borough. KABATA’s goal is to construct a cost-affordable, vehicular toll bridge of about 2.7 miles across Knik Arm to join the Port of Anchorage area and Port MacKenzie area, as well as 19 miles of road to support the bridge's accessibility. The purpose of this project is to build a bridge to fulfill the following needs:

• An efficient link between the operations and infrastructure of the two ports;
• An alternate north-south emergency response and disaster evacuation route;
• Transportation infrastructure for existing and projected population and   economic growth; and
• Implementing the Alaska legislative mandate.


Project Area Map
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Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)