Show TWO YEARS IN TIlE THE MAKING i Sometimes om It seems forever for a stretch of the Freeway Jo Jobe to tobe tobe be completed completed haven't haven't you noticed And And state road rond officials report re report reo port that It does docs take quite a n while From tho first movement of ot e ea earth r h t by big construction equipment ment to the lye laying of ot the final strip of asphalt may take as os much as two y years ars All these thes are necessary actual steps In construction says C C. C Taylor Burton Director of ot Highways Previous to the actual awarding of ot the first contract several previous steps have to be made by the Utah State Department of at Highways Preliminary engineering will provide for possible locations of ot a section of ot the Interstate System Meetings arc are archeld archeld held with city and county officials to discuss t these ese proposals Then a public hearing Is conducted where the citizens of ot the area are informed of ot the highway departments department's proposal for location location lo lo- cation of the freeway The hearing Is studied by tHe Road Commission Commission Com Com- mission and approved both by them and the Bureau of Public Roads before final decision Is made on the route The detailed design may take up to orte otie year to complete on these big broad highways Right of way must be purchased with general widths calling for approximately feet Finally the state will ask for bids before the first construction can commence The first construction contract to be awarded calls for the trie clearing of the right TIght of way Buildings will be removed vegetation vege vege- tat tation on and other objects in the way will be cleared Utilities Utilities must n also be moved to make way for the big construction equipment Fills form the second step In freeway construction In some sections a project of four tour to five miles mlles in length can take over a t million cubic yards of earth Heavy modern machinery tamps S the material materIa as It Is placed Enough fill is placed to give a good goat solid road bed The larger embar embankments are placed wh where re structures S tures tares for crossings will be located In some sections settlement may be as much us as five feet leet The actual lowering will be of ot the natural earth under the fills This final linal settling can take as long longas as one year after completion of this phase phase- of construction The third step in freeway construction involves the placing of ot as much as 10 feet of additional earth on the embankments It Is done done at the approach to structures such as an overpass The exi extra a. weight of soil is used to to speed up consolidation of the ground below the surface After settling is complete it Is removed removed removed re re- re- re moved and used on other nearby sections of the Job The The 10 fourth rt phase of construction In a 0 section of the Interstate Interstate Inter Inter- state is the building of ot the structures These are the connecting links for the filL They are arc the giant masses of steel and concrete concrete con con- crete that will serve as bridges overpasses and underpasses and some will wUl form parts of the Interchanges 1 The section of the freeway is now ready for paving which constitutes the fifth step Wide ribbons o of asphalt are laid by modem modern construction machines This work also Includes the travel gravel vel sub base for tor the pavement Finally the signing and improvements will complete a section of Ot the freeway Signs must be placed guard rail and guide posts added Lighting Is als also a part of these Improvements Fencing lancing will be In Installed Then In final completion landscaping is added And And there probably vent went two years |