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Show Utah Interstate 80 Completed The Utah Department of Transportation announced today that Utah has reached the 80 percent mark in opening completed com-pleted sections of the state's Interstate Highway System to traffic as of August 1. Of Utah's 939 mile Interstate In-terstate System 698 miles (74 percent) are complete, 53 miles (six percent) are open to traffic but still in stage construction, 43 miles (five percent) are currently under construction, con-struction, and only 145 miles (15 percent) are still under design. Forty-six of the 53 miles under stage construction are to bring Interstate 70 from two lanes to four lanes. The breakdown by systems is as follows: 1-15-78.1 percent complete 1-70 - 73 percent complete (includes 20 percent under stage construction) 1-80 - 92 percent complete I-80N - 88.4 percent complete 1-215 - 56 percent complete UDOT Director William D. Hurley expressed pleasure with the Department's progress on the Interstate completion. According to Mr. Hurley, "The Department has been very aggressive in filling in the Interstate gaps. This has been one of the busiest construction seasons in the state's history and we're looking forward to 1979 being equally productive in terms of Interstate progress." |