We began on August 17th, to install Street Lighting work from Delta Avenue to Dolly Varden a span of 7.5 miles and on both sides of the highway, installing conduit, jboxes and pile driving lighting foundations. This work will continue until the end of October.

Our contractor is working 6 days a week from 7am to 7pm. The plan is to widen the entire roadway from Robin to Silver Salmon and pave the first layer of asphalt (ATB). This work will continue to the end of September.

We then plan to excavate along the bike path near station 217+00 for the remainder of October, there is a deep dig here and will take some time.  One lane flagging operations will continue. Shifts in traffic with devices will also occur to make room for dump trucks to import gravel and widen the road. The pathway will be closed during the day to complete the road widening as heavy equipment will be traversing this section; the pathway will be reestablished at the end of shift on gravel and delineated by traffic devices.

Please drive safe this summer and enjoy the road improvements.

Utility Crews are completing the last of their punch list items and cutting over old communication lines to the new ones. GCI has scheduled outages with their customers and will be performing this work beginning the night of July 31st. ACS also will be cutting over the night of July 27th. Both crews will then demolish the old lines and wood poles. HEA will demolish their old poles the week of August 10th.

August 3rd, the Street Lighting Electricians will begin working on the right side of the road heading north, installing conduit, jboxes and pile driving lighting foundations. This work will continue until the end of October. They will head to Dolly Varden and then head south from there to Ross St.

On August 17th, QAP will begin working on nights 6 days a week from 7pm to 5:30am. The plan is to widen the entire roadway from Robin to Silver Salmon and pave the first layer of asphalt (ATB). This work will continue to the end of September. We then plan to excavate along the bike path near station 217+00 for the remainder of October, there is a deep dig here and will take some time. Watch for Pilot car operations beginning the night of August 17th. One lane flagging operations will continue to complete all remaining utility work.

Please drive safe this summer and enjoy the road improvements.

Utility Crews have completed work from Sports Lake Road to Silver Salmon charging north. HEA and their contractor Sturgeon have completed all their work  and will return for a week in August to remove remaining poles once GCI has installed their work onto their new poles.

ENSTAR, ACS and GCI continue to install new underground phone lines, gas lines and fiber optic out to the edges of Right of Way from Silver Salmon to Ross St.  There are 6 separate crews spread out through 1.5 miles of the project and are advancing progress.

Please be mindful when driving through the project. The speed limit has been reduced to 45 MPH through the project. When work is shut down for the holidays and dip net season, it will resume to original 55 mph speed.

Utility Crews continue to relocate power poles, overhead power lines, underground phone lines, gas lines and fiber optic out to the edges of Right of Way.  There are 11 separate crews spread out through the 2.7 miles of the project and are constantly advancing progress. Please be mindful when driving through the project. The speed limit may be reduced to 45 MPH in the near future from Sports Lake Road to Eagle Rock.

Enstar and ACS will need to trench new lines beneath Strawberry Road near the intersection. A one day ROAD CLOSURE will be needed for this work in the next week or two, and an exact date will be given three days in advance with message boards notifying the public. Flyers will be mailed out to all individuals in the Neighborhood along Strawberry Road. Please use the new Wortham Drive as the Detour around to Strawberry. This would be from 7am to 7pm and the road opened back up by end of shift. 

Please drive safe and enjoy the road improvements.

The pathway will be obstructed from 7am to 7pm Monday-Saturday and flaggers will guide pedestrians.

The contractor will take Saturday, Sunday and Memorial Holiday off and be off the road at 12PM Friday but will continue working off the pathway until 4pm Friday.

Starting May 18th, there will be multiple utility crews working in all parts of the project. HEA will have two-line crews and a third boring crew, GCI will have one crew, Enstar will have two crews, ACS will have three, and QAP will begin potholing for all utilities and have a vac truck on the project extensively. A total of 10 different operations to the end of the Holiday weekend.

Electrical crews continue work on pulling long spans of new power lines between poles from Eagle Rock to Silver Salmon. Then work from Silver Salmon to Sports Lake from the pathway. Power poles also need to be installed from Sports Lake to Lancashire on the east side of the Kenai Spur. One Lane closures are needed to pull wire across Kenai Spur and 10 minute delays are expected to safely perform this work.

Enstar is boring new lines and have reached Churchill. They will continue north to Ross St and then on a separate project will install new Enstar lines into Kenai at Main St. Enstar also has line adjustments to lower due to grade changes in various locations on this project.

ACS will have a boring crew and line crew install new conduit for fiber and copper beginning at Lancashire and working north this work is extensive and will go to the end of August.

Please drive safe and enjoy the road improvements.

Electrical crews will continue framing and then standing new power poles along the pathway from Sports Lake Road to Eagle Rock Drive. The pathway will be obstructed from 7am to 7pm and flaggers will guide pedestrians. A second drilling/boring crew will arrive to install ACS and Enstar conduit underneath the Kenai Spur Highway and across some driveways and Side Streets, one lane closures will be needed along the Kenai Spur for boring equipment. Pavement will not be cut open as the operations will be drilled underneath.  The contractor will also be working off the shoulder to build out staging areas to store gas and phone line pipe and equipment.

Please drive safe and enjoy the road improvements.

AKDOT and contractor QAP UPDATE for 2026 Spring Start-up.

The week of March 30th, Surveyors will begin marking clearing limits and ROW staking.

Clearing crews will begin clearing approximately 4 acres once they are finished clearing on the Sterling Highway nearby.

Starting April 27th all Utilities will begin work in the ROW; ACS, GCI, HEA and Enstar.

HEA's contractor will work 8-10 weeks about July 4th, starting from Eagle Rock and working south to Sports Lake. GCI will fall behind and hang their lines on HEA's poles. They will work off the pathway Mon-Friday 12 hours a day with Flaggers at all times allowing pedestrians through.

ACS's contractor will begin at Sports Lake and work their way North to Eagle Rock and also continue on another project to Main Street in Kenai replacing Enstar's gas lines. ACS will work out in the ROW Mon-Sat 12 hours a day. This will require flaggers at each intersection with the Kenai Spur to cross driveways and sidestreets, detours may also be needed at Ross St and Strawberry using Wortham Avenue as a detour route.

Enstar will begin mid May to allow the ground to thaw working 6 days a week Mon- Sat.

In August, QAP can begin road work with utilities out of the way and tentatively plan to work on the 33' deep culvert south of Churchill and the rest of the road to Sports Lake if time allows.  We will also plan to widen the road if time allows, but this section will not be paved and remain a two lane road through the winter, only excavated out and filled in to make it 5 lanes wide.

Viking Electric will be on site in tentatively in August installing conduit for our 192 light poles that will mainly focus from Dolly Vardon to Eagle Rock and also installing 100 pile foundations for the light poles, the other 92 light poles will be installed once the widening is complete the next couple years.

In the Spring of 2027 the remainder of the road will be widened and paved its first layer of asphalt. In 2027 the existing asphalt will be removed and building up the road in the low spots and cutting down the high spots, these are significant cuts and fills, cutting down the hills about 14'. In 2028 the final lift of asphalt will be paved and the road complete.