Show Calls For Road Bids The Utah State Road Commission Commission Com Com- mission will advertise ad for bids Saturday on construction of six and one-half one miles of Interstate Interstate Interstate In In- Highway 15 between Pages Page's Lane at Bountiful andr andi and r i Lagoon at Farmington Estimated Estimated Estimated Esti Esti- mated total funding for the project is 10 million TOTAL construction time for the project is estimated to be days which would open the new section of Interstate Interstate Inter Inter- l state to way two-way traffic sometime sometime sometime some some- time in 1972 The bids will be opened March 24 N Construction plans call for a divided highway with threet three lanes anes of traffic northbound t and nine structures structures structures tures lighting signing and delineation delineation de de- lineation There will be three major interchanges at Parrish Parrish Parrish Par- Par rt rish Lane Walker Lane and Burkes Burke's Lane at Lagoon I COMMISSION spokesmen said it will be the first time J since ince 1950 that any major highway construction has been scheduled for the section The present highway was completed ed in that year marking thelast thelast the last ast time concrete was used U in the state until new Interstate Interstate Interstate Inter Inter- state construction methods were adopted in recent years Preliminary work now in progress will provide frontage roads and detours to facilitate facilitate facilitate tate traffic movement during peak construction WHEN WIlEN THE main job opens traffic will be routed to the frontage road located east of the present alignment Another similar road will be built west of the highway to provide provide provide pro pro- vide access for residents in that area The east frontage road will carry all northbound traffic and a detour will be constructed at Parrish Lane to carry southbound traffic around structure work there Work on these alternate routes is expected to take about two months after which construction on the northbound northbound northbound north north- bound lane of 15 1 will begin When it is complete southbound southbound southbound south south- bound traffic will use it until until until un un- un- un til the southbound lane is finished Northbound traffic will remain on the east frontage frontage frontage front front- age road throughout the |