Erin Baldwin Day
44:54 - 45:24
“discontinuing that route entirely would be a massive impact to a very specific neighborhood and very a specific population of individuals in Anchorage. And Route 65 connects downtown with Spenard and Sand Lake and the airport, and it's the only bus service in southwest Anchorage.”
- Speaker
- Erin Baldwin Day
- Timestamp
- 44:54 – 45:24
- Transcript
- Anchorage Assembly: Worksession re General Government Operating Cont’d & Enterprise & Utilities
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Anchorage
- Captured at
- October 23, 2026
From the transcript
And so that is a way that, like, a very specific— that our elders are getting where they need to go in Anchorage, and discontinuing that route entirely would be a massive impact to a very specific neighborhood and very a specific population of individuals in Anchorage. And Route 65 connects downtown with Spenard and Sand Lake and the airport, and it's the only bus service in southwest Anchorage. And so that is—. I mean, those are not insignificant. I mean, it's 1.8 million, and I think there's a calculus to be done there about what does that mean in terms of economic value?
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