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Show fl!liyijtl 0011 t By GARY R. BLODGETT LAYTON - Traffic patterns-between patterns-between Layton and Far-mington Far-mington were to be altered beginning Tuesday as Interstate Inter-state Highway 15 undergoes a face lifting. A spokesman for the Utah Department of Transportation Transporta-tion said that southbound traffic will be detoured onto the west half of the northbound north-bound lanes of traffic. "Traffic will be over a solid, finished highway, but there will be only a four-foot painted median between the northbound and southbound lanes of traffic," he said. NORTHBOUND traffic has een using the east half of the proposed northbound lanes (open only to two lanes) since last November while southbound south-bound traffic has used the old southbound lanes (two lanes) ' of U.S. Highway 91. Northbound traffic will continue to use the easterly two lanes of traffic on the newly completed interstate while southbound traffic will use the westerly two lanes of the same highway for the remainder of the summer, it was explained. DOT officials said the southbound Interstate Highway High-way system between Lagoon and Layton should be completed by the end of October. Oc-tober. The Kaysville 200 North overpass will be open to northbound traffic and 200 North-which has been closed since the beginning of construction con-struction on I-15-will again be reopened to east-west traffic traf-fic but will have approximately approxima-tely two blocks of gravel sur- face. SOUTHBOUND ramps to the overpass will remain closed until the project is completed, according to the DOT . spokesman. Also, the 100 South crossing which was used temporarily while overpass work was being be-ing done will be closed to all north-south traffic. BURTON Lane will remain closed during the southbound 1-15 construction and Shepard's Lane will be closed to all vehicle traffic with the exception of a right turn onto 1-15 for eastbound traffic, it was explained. Construction crews will begin work on a second bridge for southbound lanes which crosses 200 North, Kaysville. Pile supports wili be installed in April and allowed to settle before overpass over-pass construction is started. NORTHBOUND lanes at 200 North are now using the overpass structure already completed -thus eliminating a hazardous, sharp curve which has been the scene of four rollovers of large trucks in recent months. DOT officials emphasize that motorists will have good pavement on which to travel in the construction area, but that extreme caution is necessary because of the close proximity of the north and southbound lanes of travel. |