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Show Bids Opened To Build SR-14 Section In Area The Utah Department of Transportation Trans-portation opened bids on a project to reconstruct the half-mile section of State Route 14 which was wiped out in a landslide on March 27. The slide, located eight miles east of Cedar City, necessitated the total closure of that highway to through-traffic. Of the four contractors who submitted bids on the project, Gibbons Gib-bons & Reed Company of Salt Lake City had the apparent low bid of $386,000. UDOT's official engineer's en-gineer's estimate was $428,900. The contract will be awarded as quickly as officials can review the bids to make certain no errors were made and that all requirements were met. This project involves constructing construct-ing a temporary road over the slide area in order to re-establish travel on SR-14 as quickly as possible. The highway section to be constructed con-structed will be a two-lane, paved road, much as it appeared before the slide, but it may have some steeper grades and more curves. The project does not include any work on slide stabilization. Work is expected to begin in the very near future and the contractor has twenty working days, or one month, to complete the project. There is an incentive provision in the contract whereby the contractor will receive $5,000 per day for each day he completes the project before the twenty days. Likewise, he must pay a penalty of $5,000 per day for each day he exceeds the twenty day limit. This road is only a temporary measure to get this popular highway high-way opened as quickly as possible so motorists don't have to continue using the lengthy detours they must now use. UDOT officials will continue to study the area and gather data for the next several months so they can make a determination on a permanent perma-nent solution; whether to reconstruct recon-struct the highway on a new alignment to bypass the slide area or, if its' determined the slide area can be stabilized, whether to reconstruct recon-struct the permanent highway on the existing alignment. |
