Comments about ‘UDOT officials provide more details about I-15 rebuild in Utah County’

where the traffic problems are!! The major traffic problems aren't between Provo and Springville/US 6 - they are between Point of the Mountain and Provo. Why spend the money on the southern portion of the interstate when the fix needs to be on the northern portion. Not too tough to figure that one out - UDOT!!

Obviously "Fix the Road" doesn't drive on the southern end. It always is backed up as well. Quit thinking only of yourself.

UDOT is very clever. By breaking the project up this way they will force the legislature to pony up for the rebuild of the northern section much sooner.

As Fix the Road has already pointed out, all the current plan will do is leave a nice bottleneck between Point of the Mountain and American Fork. It doesn't take a traffic engineer to realize that every rush hour, that section will become the most congested section of freeway in the state.

Of course, the outcry over the 'broken' freeway will be such that the legislature will be only too happy to pony up the money to rebuild the northern section. Do it the other way around, and the southern section might have to wait decades before it gets any attention.

"point of the mountain" is part of the core, look on the UDOT website

The area between Sandy and American Fork will literally become a famous bottleneck in both directions if it is not widened in conjunction with the "core" rebuild.