Mayor Fink destroyed the bus service during his 2 terms elected by the ruling classes in the 1980s.  The system has never recovered and never will as long as the mindset of the Anchorage citizens remains locked in Texas-style, prairie  automobile-only road system, no sidewalks, and no taxes.  The Oil Monopoly built it to look just like their Dallas-Fort Worth flatland, no trees environment with non-winterized home construction.  A road system designed to serve the oil management enclaves long gone.  Everything in the city built after 1972 is a free market non-design for serving the area.  Only a 1964-style earthquake will shake the ideological mess the city has become; and even that is doubtful.