Show Speaking of Roads The State Road Commission has completed a survey surveyor of the new rew highway up Moab canyon The road would connect with the piece of highway recently completed near Uranium Reductions new mill and would go up Moab canyon across 7 mile wash for ten miles ending near the Arches National monument turnoff The project would call for construction of new bridges and a complete new route which would cut out one of the worst pieces of road on U. U S. S Highway The original route up the canyon was along the bottom on the south side of the wash When the present highway was built a route was chosen along the hill hili involving several of the most terrifying hairpin curves to be seen anywhere Reason for the present route obviously was the fact that northside would be hit by the sun all winter making snow removal a small item The new route would closely follow the first one along the bottom and snow removal would be no problem with present day equipment Nevertheless the fact remained that even when the present route was first completed it was entirely inadequate because of the route chosen There hav hay been several accidents along the stretch but for the most part they have not been as heavy as one would expect ex ex- peel after traveling the road Most people think it Is a lucky thing that more people haven't been seriously injured Jn Jo the canyon road Latest word has it that though the survey work has been com cons completed completed plated there is some hesitation in actually getting around to letting bids on the ten mile stretch According to officials the construction would be Ideal for winter when most state road construction is at a standstill The reluctance In actually getting started probably stems from the fact that much money has already been spent this year Inthe in inthe inthe the construction of the new highway through Moab and with the building of the new Colorado river bridge As the old has it though the chain is only as strong as the weakest link and surely the advantages of the new construction here in the valley are ate dimmed by the road out of the valley to the north Until recent years southeastern Utah has been pretty much forgotten as far tar as building has gone The completion of beautiful stretches of road In the last year or two only makes us more aware of the shortcomings of the rest of the areas area's roads roods There Is a possibility that bids for tor the construction of road north will be let this fall Let us hope that they are We cannot develop develop develop de de- to our utmost with roads twenty years too old and certainly the canyon road can be categorized as such We removed the biggest biggest biggest big big- gest bottleneck to the Moab area with the construction of at the new river bridge The sooner we can get the lesser bottlenecks removed the better off oft wo we all will be |