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Show encouraging road planning Moab, Grand County and other area residents will meet Thursday of this week in the "Triangle" area northeast of the Colorado and Dolores Rivers, with officials and representatives represen-tatives of the Grand Junction area, to explore fhe possibilities possibil-ities of constructing a highway from Utah Route 128 at Dewey across the Dolores and into the Colorado National Monument area which leads on into Fruita and Grand Junction. Long thousht about as a real prospect for a scenic highway high-way that would not only draw the cities of Southeastern Utah and Southwestern Colorado closer together, but. as a highway attraction with economic benefits for both areas, the proposal pro-posal has much merit. Completion of U-128 from Moab to llnterstate 70 as an all-weather all-weather paved road has been progressing fairly well over the past few years. One major block to completion, however, is the placement of a more adequate bridge across the River at Dewey. If the road could be pushed on into Colorado, it would be necessary to bridge the Dolores. But this, according to many, could be done a lot less expensively than bridging the Colorado. Colorado representatives are reportedly as enthused with the prospects as local people. The Grand Junction Chamber cf Commerce has openly sought the on-site inspection, seeing in the route a direct link to a multitude of national and state scenic and recreation areas. The combined enthusiasm should be used as a vehicle to getting the proposal studied as quickly as possible, so that if it has merit in the final analysis, plans might be laid to get the project funded and built. |