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The idea of extending this road to Nome has been around since at least the 1950s. It has been officially studied to death in the decades since. Mike Kelly, in his first House campaign in 2004, long before either Sarah Palin or Sean Parnell became governor, frequently brought up the issue. Of course, once he went to Juneau, he focused on other issues, which led to his barely being re-elected in 2008 and losing this year. RadioKAOS ( talk) 14:29, 14 November 2010 (UTC)
Huh...guess I forgot that I already tagged this as an issue, with no one really paying attention since. It appears that bringing it up in the article space finally woke someone up. That user insists that I'm "blathering weird comments about politics." No, I'll tell you what's weird. That would be relying upon one source, rather limited in substantial information and mostly completely lacking in proper historical perspective, to explain an issue which is far more extensive and for which sources are abundant. User:BIL did this with several articles in attempting to explain the concept of a road to Nome. Discovering that this user lives in Sweden might possibly explain a lack of perspective and knowledge herein. Let me introduce another, polar opposite source here:
Sundborg, George (July 29, 1957). "Chambers Launch New Drive for Road to Nome". Fairbanks Daily News-Miner. Fairbanks. pp. 1–2. (relevant excerpts follow)
A concerted drive to obtain completion of Highway 97, a road connecting Fairbanks and Nome, was launched over the weekend when a goodwill delegation from the Fairbanks Chamber of Commerce met with the Northwestern Alaska Chamber of Commerce at Nome.
Highway 97 was the theme of the trip. The visitors were met at the airport at Nome by a 50-foot banner saying "Welcome Fairbanks Chamber, Terminus Highway 97." At meetings which followed, the 540-mile highway was the main topic of conversation. On Saturday morning the Fairbanks visitors were given a ride over the 36-mile section which has been completed on the Nome end (ed. note - this is the current Nome-Council Road or whatever they may be calling the road these days). They left for home reinvigorated by the highway-building enthusiasm shown by their hosts at Nome.
Highway 97 is on the primary road system for Alaska approved for future construction by the Bureau of Public Roads and the Alaska Board of Highway Commissioners. A start has been made at each end to close the overland gap between the two largest cities north of the Alaska Range (ed. note - the BPR is currently the Federal Highway Administration; the ABHC was a territorial-era concoction. There were many of these sort of boards formed in territorial days as an attempt to counter the federal control was pervaded life in the territory in general. The road on the Fairbanks end became the Elliott Highway.).
The references to "Highway 97" show that in addition to the idea of a road to Nome, the idea of U.S. Route 97 in Alaska may have a history which contradicts not only what's been written so far on Wikipedia, but also the websites used to justify those statements.
Anyway, I blanked the section as a result. Feel free to restore it when you can do a little better job than merely parrot the first item your Google search returns. If you feel I'm being a little harsh, keep in mind that the section, as it was written, has the potential to leave readers with the impression that a road to Nome was Sarah Palin's idea. That would be one massive fail, falling under WP:PROMO, WP:RECENT and WP:UNDUE. Alaska-related articles ALREADY SUFFER from too much interjection by editors who appear to have an agenda to promote Palin, with not enough (in some cases, nothing) being done to balance that. RadioKAOS ( talk) 00:42, 19 July 2011 (UTC)
A 500 mile extension of the Route 2 to reach Nome in western Alaska has been proposed by the governors Sarah Palin and Sean Parnell.
Every time the road is extended even one mile all the mile markers will be wrong. Sagittarian Milky Way ( talk) 21:12, 9 June 2012 (UTC)
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The idea of extending this road to Nome has been around since at least the 1950s. It has been officially studied to death in the decades since. Mike Kelly, in his first House campaign in 2004, long before either Sarah Palin or Sean Parnell became governor, frequently brought up the issue. Of course, once he went to Juneau, he focused on other issues, which led to his barely being re-elected in 2008 and losing this year. RadioKAOS ( talk) 14:29, 14 November 2010 (UTC)
Huh...guess I forgot that I already tagged this as an issue, with no one really paying attention since. It appears that bringing it up in the article space finally woke someone up. That user insists that I'm "blathering weird comments about politics." No, I'll tell you what's weird. That would be relying upon one source, rather limited in substantial information and mostly completely lacking in proper historical perspective, to explain an issue which is far more extensive and for which sources are abundant. User:BIL did this with several articles in attempting to explain the concept of a road to Nome. Discovering that this user lives in Sweden might possibly explain a lack of perspective and knowledge herein. Let me introduce another, polar opposite source here:
Sundborg, George (July 29, 1957). "Chambers Launch New Drive for Road to Nome". Fairbanks Daily News-Miner. Fairbanks. pp. 1–2. (relevant excerpts follow)
A concerted drive to obtain completion of Highway 97, a road connecting Fairbanks and Nome, was launched over the weekend when a goodwill delegation from the Fairbanks Chamber of Commerce met with the Northwestern Alaska Chamber of Commerce at Nome.
Highway 97 was the theme of the trip. The visitors were met at the airport at Nome by a 50-foot banner saying "Welcome Fairbanks Chamber, Terminus Highway 97." At meetings which followed, the 540-mile highway was the main topic of conversation. On Saturday morning the Fairbanks visitors were given a ride over the 36-mile section which has been completed on the Nome end (ed. note - this is the current Nome-Council Road or whatever they may be calling the road these days). They left for home reinvigorated by the highway-building enthusiasm shown by their hosts at Nome.
Highway 97 is on the primary road system for Alaska approved for future construction by the Bureau of Public Roads and the Alaska Board of Highway Commissioners. A start has been made at each end to close the overland gap between the two largest cities north of the Alaska Range (ed. note - the BPR is currently the Federal Highway Administration; the ABHC was a territorial-era concoction. There were many of these sort of boards formed in territorial days as an attempt to counter the federal control was pervaded life in the territory in general. The road on the Fairbanks end became the Elliott Highway.).
The references to "Highway 97" show that in addition to the idea of a road to Nome, the idea of U.S. Route 97 in Alaska may have a history which contradicts not only what's been written so far on Wikipedia, but also the websites used to justify those statements.
Anyway, I blanked the section as a result. Feel free to restore it when you can do a little better job than merely parrot the first item your Google search returns. If you feel I'm being a little harsh, keep in mind that the section, as it was written, has the potential to leave readers with the impression that a road to Nome was Sarah Palin's idea. That would be one massive fail, falling under WP:PROMO, WP:RECENT and WP:UNDUE. Alaska-related articles ALREADY SUFFER from too much interjection by editors who appear to have an agenda to promote Palin, with not enough (in some cases, nothing) being done to balance that. RadioKAOS ( talk) 00:42, 19 July 2011 (UTC)
A 500 mile extension of the Route 2 to reach Nome in western Alaska has been proposed by the governors Sarah Palin and Sean Parnell.
Every time the road is extended even one mile all the mile markers will be wrong. Sagittarian Milky Way ( talk) 21:12, 9 June 2012 (UTC)
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