Two steps that would go light years to improving the Anchorage transportation system - Unify snow plowing into one MOA agency.  It's ludicrous in concept, results and cost to have State DOT apply highway tactics to urban streets. Add to that the duplicate sidewalk clearing arms and it gets pretty crazy. Akin to a forge press driving a finishing nail. Precedent exists, city wide traffic signal management was transferred to MOA decades ago.   Second, optimize and coordinate the traffic signal system. 5th and 6th Avenues have been sequentially timed since the 1960's, why on earth can we not do the same on the rest of the grid?  C Street is shunned by a lot of motorists because of horrid signal management.  One can retire waiting for a light to change while no traffic is in sight.  Implement "short cycling" at controlled intersections to fit in waiting traffic between blocks of cars.