UDOT could also fix the road by tearing out the concrete and replacing it with asphalt.

The concrete is way too noisy for a recreational area. When you use the canyon for recreation such as camping, fishing, etc., instead of hearing nature, all you hear is the roar of noisy traffic.

Frank Slide wrote:
UDOT could also fix the road by tearing out the concrete and replacing it with asphalt.

The concrete is way too noisy for a recreational area. When you use the canyon for recreation such as camping, fishing, etc., instead of hearing nature, all you hear is the roar of noisy traffic.There's another blunder...I agree. Yes, concrete is more durable, lasts a long time and is probably cheaper in the long run (?).

BUT, no-one who decided to use that concrete has ever fly-fished the Provo River alongside it. Vrrroomm!!! Vrrrooommm!!! That's just the cars. Then come the diesels "BRBRBRBRBRBRBbbbbb$RRRrrrrrrrrr!!!!!!"... "EEEWWWWeeeWWWeeeeeeeeeWWWWaaaahhhhhhh !!!!"

And all that with extrememly minimal speed limit enforcement.

Robert Redford insisted the widened road was to be nature friendly. It was for a while. But we've got the cement and now those ungodly looking tension cable median barriers.

If the natural beauty of the canyon has some kind of cognizance about her, I suppose she would be taking human life in revenge for such ugly blunders.