EARTH DAY – Chelsea Christenson checks on her kids, Avery and Beckett, inside a whale costume prior to the annual Parade of Species. Dozens of participants marched from Totem Square to the Crescent Harbor Shelter dressed as their favorite animals. The event was hosted by Sitka Conservation Society, University of Alaska Fairbanks Cooperative Extension Service and the Sitka Sound Science Center. (Sentinel Photo by James Poulson)
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Sitka Roads Designated for Daytime Headlights
By Sentinel Staff
“Headlights On at All Times”
That’s the message on signs that will soon be appearing on long stretches of Sawmill Creek Road and Halibut Point Road.
Sitka is one of seven Southeast communities where the signs will be installed by the state Department of Transportation this summer, DOT announced today.
The signs will “inform motorists to use their headlights while driving in specific areas, regardless of conditions or the time of day,” the department said in a news release. “The purpose of the new signs is to make Alaska’s roads safer by reducing crashes.”
The areas of the state highways in Sitka where the daytime headlights will be required are Halibut Point Road between the ferry terminal and Katlian Street. On Sawmill Creek Road the daytime headlights area is between Blue Lake Road and Indian River Road.
The DOT says approximately 15 Alaskans die annually in head-on crashes, and that research shows that “signage and compliance could eliminate 7 to 15 percent of these crashes.”
The signs have been installed on highways in other parts of the state since 2011, DOT said, with the aim of reducing the risk of daytime collisions by making vehicles more noticeable to oncoming traffic, pedestrians and bicyclists.
The Southeast highway corridors were selected “based on proximity to Alaska Marine Highway System terminals and border crossings, remoteness, crash history and traffic volume,” DOT said.
The other Southeast highways that will get the signs are around Haines, Juneau and Douglas, Ketchikan, Prince of Wales Island, Petersburg and Wrangell.
More information regarding headlight safety in Alaska is available online at Alaska.gov/stwdplng/hwysafety/headlights.shtml.
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