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LaHood Discusses State’s Transportation Challenges

Alaska Public Media | By Ellen Lockyer
Published September 27, 2011 at 11:24 PM AKDT

Federal transportation secretary Ray LaHood met with Alaska officials in Girdwood Tuesday morning to discuss the state’s transportation challenges – with a special focus on  the safety of the highway corridor between Seward and Anchorage. So far this year there have been three fatalities on the highway. Last year there was five.

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APTI Reporter-Producer Ellen Lockyer started her radio career in the late 1980s, after a stint at bush Alaska weekly newspapers, the Copper Valley Views and the Cordova Times. When the Exxon Valdez ran aground in Prince William Sound, Valdez Public Radio station KCHU needed a reporter, and Ellen picked up the microphone. Since then, she has literally traveled the length of the state, from Attu to Eagle and from Barrow to Juneau, covering Alaska stories on the ground for the AK show, Alaska News Nightly, the Alaska Morning News and for Anchorage public radio station, KSKA elockyer (at) alaskapublic (dot) org  |  907.550.8446 | About Ellen
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