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Show nan ' n n m iigMi wits fere Fifth North to underpass to be 6 lanes with medians j Two million dollars in new' bids including the widening of highway 91 between Spring-ville Spring-ville and Provo plus $8 million mil-lion dollars worth of other highway projects in the county coun-ty was announced by the state road commission earlier this week. $7 million in construction on the freeway, starting construction construc-tion of the road west of Utah Lake, purchase of right-of-way to extend University Avenue northward on a new routing for U.S. 189, and continuing of work on the Spanish Fork Canyon Red Narrows at a cost of more than $1 million have been docketed. The state has programmed $800,000 to widen U.S. 91 from 300 S. 7th E., in Provo to the underpass south of I Springville. Of this amount, : $550,000 comes from urban funds and $250,000 from state I funds. Highway 91 from 300 to 900 South, Provo, will be widened to six lanes four traffic and two parking lanes plus built up medians and left turn holding hold-ing lanes. It will be paved curb to curb. From Fifth North in Springville Spring-ville to Ninth South in Provo the highway will be widened 20 feet, 10 feet on each side, giving a 60-foot roadway. This will provide four 12-foot traffic traf-fic lanes; a four foot painted dividing median between opposing op-posing lanes of traffic, and! the highway will have two four-foot shoulders. At dangerous crossings such as the Pipe Plant, Ironton, and j the Youth Home, the highway will have a built-up median and turning lanes. Going south from Fifth No. in Springville to the underpass, U.S. 91 will be widened to six lanes with built up medians and left-turning lanes. The west of the lake road has been programmed for all 33 miles with a cost of $650,000 tagged this year for right of way and some construction. The road will not be built to highway standards as earlier planned (which would have run $1.5 million) but will be a 24-foot state secondary road with bituminous road mix surface. sur-face. Construction this year will include building up grade, graveling, and possibly adding a temporary surface this fall. |