From Deseret News archives:
Road projects focus on N. Utah, Cache
Biggest jobs scheduled for U.S. 89 between Logan and Bear Lake
For Salt Lake-area motorists, that means the impacts to traffic will be felt farther down the road like on the way to Bear Lake, for example. Cache County and northern Utah will be the site of several major construction projects planned by the Utah Department of Transportation.
"This is a very heavy construction season for us up in Region 1," said UDOT Region 1 director Cory Pope. "So much so that it's taxing our resources. We are actually looking to the other regions in the state for construction help construction oversight assistance."
The two most expensive and expansive projects will take place on U.S. 89 between Logan and Bear Lake.
One is a $7.5 million project set to begin in June that will include three bridge replacements and the addition of a pedestrian underpass just east of Logan.
"We're actually treating that as a single corridor," Pope said of the two U.S. 89 projects. "We're putting together a public information manager for this project a third-party consultant to help us get information out to the public on more of a statewide vantage point because it's such a highly used recreation area that we want to get the word out a little more widespread."
Here are brief descriptions and expected traffic impacts for the six major 2005 projects planned within the boundaries of UDOT's Region 1:
U.S. 89 at Garden City, Bear Lake UDOT will reconstruct a seven-mile segment from the Bear Lake Summit to Garden City.
Due to the high volume of recreational traffic expected, UDOT is requiring its contractor to keep one lane open in each direction from Friday at 3 p.m. through Sunday night. The contractor has informed UDOT it will attempt to avoid working at all on Fridays. Still, the going could be slow for would-be vacationers.
"It doesn't always mean they are going to be traveling on a paved surface. It could be 15 mph through that (one-lane) section," Pope said, adding that only two or three miles of the road will be worked on at one time, keeping delays to 10 or 15 minutes most weekends.
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