I know Mei Mei and she is quite a thoughtful person. Her analysis of the road is similar to many, many others - that it will cause more problems than it will solve. As a narrow two-lane road with roundabouts, it will not have enough capacity to provide the "faster to the hospitals" value that advocates argue for AND it will be clogged with traffic from the hillside that is using it as a cut-through to get north to the Glenn Highway (thereby avoiding Lake Otis Boulevard or the Seward Highway.) All the community councils in the area are against it for many, many reasons. An example is the Russian Jack Community Council that argues against it because of the road's impact on East High and other schools just to the north of Northern Lights Boulevard. The only way to keep local school children safe would to put crosswalks across the road in front of each school. That would mean that the increased amount of traffic would come to a complete stop whenever a student hits the crosswalk button.