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Show Road Projects in SE Utah Outlined at Rotary Meet A considerable amount of construction on roads in the Southeastern Utah area "lias been scheduled for this summer by the Utah Department of Highways, High-ways, State Road Commissioner Com-missioner Sam Taylor told members of the Moab Rotary Club Monday. The first is a cooper-alive cooper-alive project between the State Parks Department and the Slate Road Commission, Com-mission, to be advertised in mid-May, which will pave all interior roads in Dead Dorse Point State Park, he said. Included in the project will be parking lots and other park roads with the actual work supervised by the Slate Highway Department. Depart-ment. Funding, however, will come primarily from the State Parks and Recreation Rec-reation Department, Mr. Taylor said. The first portion of a three year project which will result in the armor coaling of U-128 completely com-pletely through to 1-70. This, C o m m i s s i o n e r Taylor said, will begin in the near future. This year, 8 miles of that load will be armor coated in two projects. One of these will begin at the end of the present pavement in Professor Valley and go to an area near Fisher Towers, a total of four miles. The other project begins at Dewey Bridge and extends ex-tends north four miles across Sagers Wash. This is strictly armor coating and will not involve in-volve any bridges or oil -verting. Commissioner Taylor pointed out. The crossings of Onion Creek and Professor Creek, to big for culverting, will be undertaken in future years with bridges and for the present time, w ill be left as they are now. Cane Spring District Officials had applied for major construction con-struction in Cane Spring Canyon south of Moab, however this was rejected re-jected because of lack of funds but District crews now plan to locale and erect guard rails by mid summer along this dangerous dan-gerous dugway. Commissioner Taylor stated that a considerable amount of road widening and improvement is planned plan-ned for the entrances to Moab City. South of town, from Miller's Shopping Center to Moab Lanes, an additional lane of traffic traf-fic will be added and District engineering people peo-ple are working with (rand County and Moab City officials to come up with solutions to traffic problems at the intersections inter-sections of Fourth Fast and U.S. 163 and llolvoak Lane and U.S. Ifi3. Work planned for north of Moab City includes widening of U.S. 163 on the Moab side of the Colorado River Bridge for several hundred feet near the junction of the highway with U-128, and although traffic surveys late last summer did not show-- a need for widening or other work in the vicinity of theSunDowner Restaurant, another survey sur-vey will be conducted in June to see if the traffic-pa traffic-pa 1 1 e r n has changed " bers are Lorraine Chi destcr, Jim Fischer Scott Howell, David Law ley, Lori Peterson, Jer ry Stocks, and Dian, Townsend. From the 7th grade the new members ar ' Dana Bittle, Jody Jack son. Karen Kerr.Tomm. Pruitt, Robert Raymond Grelchen Roberts, anc Celeste Self. enough to warrenl road i in p r o v e m e n t there, Commissioner T a y I o r slated. Hluff City Not in Moab, but important im-portant to Southeastern Utah are several roads now in the planning and 1 design stages. One of these is a new road through Bluff City, including in-cluding a new bridge across Cottonwood Wash. This bridge has washed out with rainstorms in two of the past three years. Completion of paving on U-'J.r) is another such project. Thirty miles are left which are not under contract. This is expected expect-ed to be let in one special project if federally impounded im-pounded funds are released re-leased to do the work. On 1-70, work on the segment from Yellow Cat to Cisco is being completed com-pleted currently by Low-dermilk Low-dermilk Construction and is expected to reach completion com-pletion in late fall or early next spring, and Strong Construction has now moved onto the Crescent Cres-cent Junction to Yellow Cat segment which is expected ex-pected to be completed in late summer of 1974. The section of highway from F.lgin to Floy will be advertised for construction construc-tion next spring and from Floy to Crescent Junction, Junc-tion, including the Crescent Cres-cent Junction interchange in the spring of 1975. This leaves only one section sec-tion incomplete in Grand and Fmery Counties, that being the Green River bypass and Green River bridge, which hopefully will be advertised in the spring of I 976. Of major irnportanct to the people of Southeastern South-eastern Utah is the massive mas-sive bypass in the Price area scheduled to be con structed over a three year period. The first segment, from Blue Cut to Fast Price, will be advertised ad-vertised late this summer. |