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Alaska DOT to consider speed limit changes on Tudor and Muldoon roads.The state transportation department is considering lower speed limits along the Tudor-Muldoon corridor from Spenard to East Anchorage, a busy thoroughfare prone to dangerous crashes.Alaska traffic engineers recorded more than 2,200 crashes along Tudor and Muldoon roads between January 2020 and December 2024.Ten of the crashes were fatal, and the majority of the accidents involved pedestrians or cyclists.After the study concluded, two more pedestrians were killed in collisions last year in East Anchorage.Just last weekend, a driver died after a crash involving several vehicles near Tudor Road and Boniface Parkway, in East Anchorage.On Wednesday, the Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities, alongside the municipality’s Vision Zero Task Force, will host a public hearing at the Loussac Library on possible speed limit reductions along the Tudor-Muldoon corridor.Staff hope to gauge residents’ support for possible changes to the speed limit and the overall roadway design, said Justin Shelby, an administrative operations manager with DOT.Traffic engineers are analyzing speed limits for the stretch of Tudor and Muldoon roads between Minnesota Drive and Boundary Avenue, by the Glenn Highway.The corridor starts in Spenard, and moves through Midtown and East Anchorage into what’s known as the “Muldoon curve.” The current speed limit ranges from 40 to 50 mph and changes three times before drivers starting at Tudor and Minnesota reach the Glenn Highway to the north.Shelby attributed the high number of crashes along Tudor and Muldoon roads to numerous factors, including excessive speeds, intoxication, crossing outside of crosswalks and limited visibility.But the greater the speed, the “higher potential for a negative outcome,” he said.A state analysis published earlier this year showed that 92 pedestrians have been killed by vehicles in Anchorage over the last decade.Anchorage’s elected officials have continually advocated for changes to be made along the city’s most dangerous roadways.The Anchorage Assembly in 2024 urged speed limit reductions in areas where fatalities have repeatedly occurred.Over the past two years, community councils across Anchorage have made similar requests.Some neighborhoods have labeled the Tudor-Muldoon corridor as a “top priority” for a speed limit evaluation, according to the DOT project page.In a resolution passed a year ago, the Campbell Creek Community Council, one of the neighborhoods adjacent to Tudor Road, called for lower speed limits and the installation of permanent flashing speed feedback signs.“The number of pedestrian deaths has increased to record levels in recent years, often on streets with speed limits of 45 miles per hour,” the June 2025 resolution reads.“Tudor Road is a major thoroughfare on which more than 29,000 motor vehicles travel daily, often exceeding the posted speed limit.” Some community council members voted against the resolution, stating that reducing the speed limit “in itself wouldn’t work,” said Campbell Creek Vice Chair Steve Johnson.“Addressing speed is just one part (of the problem),” he said.A DOT speed study showed that 85% of drivers stayed within a few miles per hour of the posted speed limit or slower.And, reducing the speed limit alone will have a “minimal impact” on the actual speed drivers travel, Shelby said.“It’s the character of the roadway that has the greater impact on the speed that drivers travel,” Shelby said.“Drivers will tend to go to the speed that the road feels safe to drive.A lot goes into that: the width of the road, how much stuff is built up right to the edge and the number of intersections.” The public hearing is scheduled for Wednesday, June 10 from 5:30-8 p.m.at the Wilda Marston Theater at the Loussac Library.DOT is also accepting written comments at dot.besafe@alaska.gov.