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Show Game time: Roads Continued from A 1 of three more roads. The first road is Tate Lane, a bumpy street that extends from state Route 113 to Stringtown Road. Huff said construction crews will widen and flatten the road. The new Tate Lane will still have two lanes, but it also will have wide shoulders to accommodate buses, he said. The second road involved doesn't have a name yet, though people have called it Soldier Hollow Lane or Olympic Boulevard. This road was unpaved and muddy durtest events ing this year. Next year, it will be a wider, paved, two-lan- e street By ANN POTEMPA The Daily Herald . - MIDWAY The first, and possibly last, road construction" project for Midway's Olympic venue begins within a month. The Utah Department of Transportation will be overseeing the reconstruction of several roads that lead Wasatch Hollow, County's 2002 Olympic venue for biathlon and cross country events. These routes are all The extra attention didn't stop there. He said a telephone company's representative paid him a visit to ask if he'd be willing to let the company put a satellite trailer on his front lawn for three months during the Games. Sakaye told the company no. On top of that, people at a town meeting told Sakaye he should consider putting up outhouses in his backyard and allowing European visitors to camp there during the Games. Once again, he turned down the offer. that passes through the venue. i The final-strein the project is Cascade Springs Road, which extends west from Stringtown Road and will swing around and connect with Soldier Hollow. Huff said Cascade Springs Road will be paved for the 2002 Games. Mathis said a number of roads that are crucial to Olympic transportation won't be fixed unless more money becomes available. Stringtown Road connects to the main entrance to Soldier Hollow, but for now it will remain rough and narrow, Mathis said. The road and intersection near 200 West in Midway also needs to be fixed, as does 2400 South. Mathis said 2400 South will connect the parking lot used during the Games with Soldier Hollow. Even state Route 113 would be a better road if it was widened, he said. Mathis said the county will try to find funding sources for more construction. He said acquiring more federal aid will be difficult, however, "like trying to get a healthy gulp of air through a straw." Philip Huff, project manag- er for UDOT, said the construction project is out for bid and road work should begin by June 1, if not sooner. He said all construction must be finished by this fall so the roads are ready for. Olympic test events that begin in December. on T . . narrow country roads that' must be resurfaced or widened to accommodate the thousands of athletes and spectators who will, visit the outdoor venue two winters from now. Wasatch County is relying about $2.6 million in federal aid to cover Olympic road construction. Bob Mathis, the county's Olympic coordinator, said he's worried there won't be enough money to pay for the county's other construction needs. "There's just not enough money to do all the things they want to do up there as far as I know," Huff said. Grant Thomas, the Salt Lake Organizing Committee's senior vice president of venues, said federal money has already been spent on reconstruction of U.S. Route 40, which connects Wasatch County to Summit and. Salt Lake counties. Grant said spectators will use that highway to travel to Soldier Hollow during the 2002 Games. Federal money now will be used to pay for reconstruction The state organized meetings for residents to talk about their concerns with road construction. Sakaye said he was asked what he wanted done with the Tate interLaneStringtown Road The Utah Department of section. He told them he wanted Transportation, the Salt Lake a long sweeping curve away from Committee and his home, not a T." Organizing "A curve would be much easier Wasatch County are working because that would divert traffic traftogether to try to make the fic pattern near Soldier Hollow away from the house," he said. In the end, the plans show a as smooth as possible. Bob Mathis, Wasatch County's modified T" with rounded, but curves. Sakaye Olympic coordinator, said one not sweeping, about the he wasn't said happy plan would direct athletes and it will road's new design, saying roads. company. spectators along separate traffic. "They gave me a company The paths include a few main clog Designers of Soldier Hollow's truck and I was just driving streets, Cascade including around," he said. "Somebody told Springs Road, Tate Lane and transportation plan said traffic shouldn't be unbearable during me, Tou ought to drive to Heber.' Stringtown Road. Tate Lane and the Games. Philip Huff, UDOTs form and a T," Stringtown project manager, said people will He followed that advice and Sakaye's house is at the intersecbe available during the Olympics found what he called a peaceful tion of that "T." to control the traffic flow near let He his is wife, Mathis said the to Beverly, valley. plan Soldier Hollow. have all athletes, officials and pick their home, and she found Thomas said SLOC will make the red brick residence on old dignitaries travel to Soldier sure people who live near the Tate Lane and Stringtown. Hollow on Cascade Springs venue can get to and " Olympic "She said This is the one,' Road, a path that will be paved from their homes. Olympic said. All this year. 20,000 spectators Sakaye organizers are considering the Sakaye remembered, three wilLgeLoa buses in a parking lot; street access Probst passes-tha- t 25 years in Heber .City and travel to talked things about his home but other options to about, ago: no neighbors, quiet, birds Soldier Hollow. Those spectators improve transportation also are singing. The land across the will take Tate Lane to the venue, discussed. being street was used for grazing and Mathis said. That plan would said Mathis the Tate direct all spectators farming. past LaneStringtown Road neighborMore than 20 years later, Sakaye's home. hood won't be a quiet place dur Grant Thomas, SLOC's senior Sakaye and the other 2,000-som- e ing the Games, but that could residents of Midway learned that vice president of venues, said the change after the Olympics are their little town would be hosting organizing committee tries to over. Sakaye said he also thought 20,000 visitors and hundreds of find separate routes for athletes traffic would die down. athletes each day during the and spectators in order to spread "After the Olympics, I don't Games. outthe traffic and make sure the think there will be 20,000 people Now, that means tWe things athletes can get to their competi- here a day," he said. for Sakaye: more neighbors, tions on time. Thomas and The little corner of Midway, noise, people skiing. The land, Caroline Shaw, SLOC spokeshowever, might not return to the across the street will be used for woman, said the organizing comhidden place, the Sakaye and ski trails and competition buildProbst families found years ago. mittee is still considering a vari"We used to be quiet and ings.... ety of route plans and trying to find the most secure path for the unheard of here," Probst said. Sakaye acknowledges the pos"Now it's changed permanently." itive results of hosting the athletes. UDOT is looking for a crew of Games, including increased workers to complete the reconAnn Potempa can be reached building in Midway. "In the long run, I do think it struction of Tate Lane and at or apotempa will be good for the valley," he Cascade Springs Road this year. iheraldextra.com. said. But the traffic problems still bother him. "I think it's going to be a mess myself," he said. "I really don't know what we're going to do," he said. It's ironic that Sakaye is even facing this decision today. the house Sakaye's family-choson Stringtown almost three decades ago because of its serene environment something Sakaye didn't realize would change in the year 2002. Sakaye was born in Montana, but left there in the 1970s when his construction company asked him to relocate to Utah. Sakaye's family moved to Park City so he could continue working with the TRAFFIC set for construction Sakaye doesn't know what he's going to do during 2002, when the world will pass by his home every day for 17 days during February, and then again a few weeks later when the Paralympic Games take place. Sakaye's lived with- - traffic during Swiss Days, Midway's annual festival that attracts thousands of people. Two years from now, all that traffic will be funneling into Sakaye's path. "When the Olympics come, I don't know how I'm going to get home," he said. His neighbors are also concerned about traffic. "We're all kind of concerned," said Kay Probst, who lives a few houses away on Stringtown Road. "We've been told security's going to be so tight that we're going to have to have a pass to get up and down this road." Probst belongs to a farming family that doesn't intend to leave the house during the Games. 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