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Show LATEST PROPOSAL IS BEST Last week, at a hurry-up meeting, Governor Ramp-ton Ramp-ton discussed with Beaver City and Beaver County interests in-terests the interchanges at Beaver when the 1-15 by-pass is constructed. At present, at Beaver City insistence, the plans call for two interchanges, one north and one south of Beaver Beav-er City. Only they won't be full interchanges. They'll be access ramps, with folks leaving the Interstate north of town unable to get back on until they drive down Beaver's main street, and re-enter the Interstate south of town. The same is true of the south ramp if they leave the Interstate south of town they must drive down the main drag and get back on at the north ramp. Now Beaver wants an additional interchange a full access interchange where Utah highway 21 meets the Interstate. And that's just what Milford has wanted all along, and we've editorialized about it. Reason for the Beaver change of heart is that the trucking interests will not leave the Interstate and drive down a small town main street to get back on. And the truckers are very important to Beaver. Governor Rampton said he would give his full support sup-port to the Beaver proposal for the third interchange, but suggested that they agree on an alternate plan, in case the Bureau of Public Roads refuses the request. The alternate he proposed was a full interchange, with on and off ramps, at each end of town, and re-routing Utah 21 to go from the Minersville Reservoir turn, along the bench south of Greenville, to connect with Interstate 15 at the south interchange. Thats where Utah should have originally been built, instead of across the swamps and down the long Beaver Lane, where cattle and horses graze the year 'round. But that wouldn't have put the traffic down Beaver's Main Drag. If the Bureau of Public Roads refuses the interchange inter-change at the present U-21 and 1-15 junction, Beaver and Beaver County will lose a proposed truck terminal, at which trucks from the East would store briefly, then re-route, freight for Utah, Nevada and the West Coast. And probably, the truck service area proposed at Cove Fort, and opposed by Beaver interests 'who want the truck service area in Beaver City, would be approved by the Court now considering a suit to force the county establish a highway service area zone at Cove Fort. i Milford should support the Beaver proposal for an interchange at U-21 and 1-15. If the Beaver folks had been a bit more foresighted, that interchange would from the start have been in the plans, and we wouldn't now be having the hassle. It's hard enough to induce motorists motor-ists as well as truckers to leave those beautiful freeways, much less get them to leave the freeway and drive along a smalltown main drag before they can continue their journey. Anyway, let's support them on their latest proposal. It's what we wanted to start with. |