How much did Haines Highway cost to build?
The Haines Highway, also called the Haines Cut-Off or Haines Road, is the road of about 240 km linking Haines, Alaska, over the Chilkat Pass and across British Columbia to Haines Junction on the Alaska Highway in Yukon, Canada, built in 1943 for the United States Army as an alternative route if the White Pass and Yukon Route railway from Skagway were blocked, with a pioneer trail built by the 340th Engineers and the road itself by contractors under the War Department. The history site ExploreNorth gives the total cost of constructing the Haines Road, including the pioneer trail, as 12,216,000 dollars, against the rounded 13 million of Wikipedia.
Final project cost
$12.216 million
Cost basis: 1943
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Cost evidence
Basis of the published figure
Final project cost1943
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