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Show Leavitt Ignores US 50 6 6In 6In In Designating Deslgnatmg East- East EastWest EastWest East-West East West - West National HighwayOmission Highway HighwayOmission Omission ofa of a hlghw1Y highway hlghw1Yacross highwayacross highwiyacross across Colorado andeastern and eastern easternUtah easternUtah easternUtah Utah from irom the new map of the thenatIonal thenational thenational natIonal natIonalsystem system of mtentate interstate mtentatehighways interstatehighways interstatehighways highways prepared by the fed federal federal federal eral public publ1c loads adm mstra nistra mstratIon nistration nistration tIon has ' evoked f'voked fvoked sharp .cnhclsm cnhclsm criticism .cnhclsmfrom criticismfrom . criticismfrom from Colorado state highway highwayplanners highwayplanners highwayplanners planners is 1S as well as from south southeastern southeastern southeastern eastern civic mterestsThe interestsThe interests mterests interestsThe 'entrance entrance only'entrance ' The new maps shows the only onlyentrance onlyentrance entrance into mto Utah from theeast the theeast theeast east to be into mto northern Utah Utahfrom Utahfrom Utahfrom from P ' " Wiommg j y ommg oming Actually Utah UtahIS Utahas Utahis IS as virtually detouredIgnormg detouredIgnoring detoured detouredIgnoring Ignoring Ignormg of the logical need needfor needfor needfor for a direct east west high highway highway highway way from Denver into mto Utah m in mcompllmg incompiling incompiling compllmg compiling the map was thework the thework work \ \ ork of the Utah state road roadcommiSSIon roadcommission roadcommission commiSSIon of which Bay Ray H HLeavitt HLeavitt HLeavitt Leavitt is rs chairman LeavItt LeavIttfrankly , Leavittfrankly Leavittfrankly frankly admits that Utah actIon actIonsucceeded actionsucceeded actionsucceeded designation desrgnatron succeeded in m blocking blockmg design desrgna a atIon tIon tron of US 6 50 across Colorado Coloradoand Coloradoand Coloradoand and eastern Utah saying saymg thatsuch that thatsuch thatsuch such a designation would havechanneled channeled havelchanneled havechanneled traffic on a route havel have bypassing bypassing by passing Salt Lake CIty and , would have ruled out approval approvalof approvalof approval of highway 91 which runs gen generally generally generally erally north south in m UtahThe UtahThe Utah UtahThe The federal interregional sys tem systern system consists of 37618 37 618 miles of ofroads ofroads ofroads roads to receive first pnonty priority I . for priorityfor pnontyfor construction in m event of a anahonal anational anational nahonal national emergency I ' The emergencyThe Utah road chairman .chairman . m in mseekmg inseeking inseeking I seekmg seeking to justify Just y his action infailing m in mfailing infailing failing to approve a direct east eastwest eastwest eastwest west road through Utah said saidThe saidThe saidThe The mileage was limited hml1ed and andUtah andUtah andUtahs Utah Utahs s most important hlghwa highway highwayis IS US 91 which serves the ma maJOllty maoiity majouty JOllty oiity ) of people in m the stateIt stateIt state stateIt It s the same old run runaround runaround runaround around declared . John .John Mar Marshall Marshall hall shall < chief designing deslgnmg engmeer engineer for engineerfor engmeerfor the Colorado highway hlghwaj de department department department partment and this thl : . sentiment IS ISheartIly isheartily isheartily heartIly agreed to by eastern easternUtah easternUtah easternUtah Utah officials and cItizensilarshall citizensMarshall citizens citizensMarshall Marshall il\arshall il arshall \ ! attributed attnbuted the as asserted asserted assorted serted hostility hostIl1ty of Utah to the theproJected theprojected theprojected proJected proJectedroute route desIgnation desIgnationwest designationwest designationwest west of Denver to the fact that thatIt thatit thatit It might divertcome divert some orne come < traffic trafficfrom trafficfrom trafficfrom from that city cl1y toward Los Angeles Angeles An geles highwayUS Designation of highway US 50 6 west of Denvel Denver would wouldhave wouldhave wouldhave have provided a shorter rout routto rout0to ' " to the-coast the coast the - - coast that would have haveeliminated haveeliminated lel1mmated eliminated Salt Lake City I |