We have the safest highway in all of Alaska but the folks up North don't want any money put in to keep it operating. Maybe you folks ought to consider figuring out a way to travel by the Alaska Marine Highway system, the safest highway in America. 
But on a more serious note......
The first 17 plus years of my life were spent traveling on the old, original Highway 66 and then Interstate 40 came along to "improve things". 
My parents drove us fifty miles one way five days a week so we wouldn't have to go to BIA schools. We rode the Greyhound bus home every night. The number of terrible accidents, including one car accidents, on the "new improved" I-40 out did the old Highway 66. People could drive the 70 miles an hour speed limit (daytime) but always in a hurry to get to Disneyland or to Chicago, they drove 100 plus miles an hour. Too many drove non-stop and fell asleep at the wheel. It's a terrible thing to see entire families, including their pets, laying broken,bloody and scattered.