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Feds greenlight I-15 expansion in Utah County |
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Joe Pyrah - Daily Herald
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The federal government has given its blessing to the most expensive road project in Utah history.
The U.S. secretary of Transportation has signed a "record of decision," which is the final approval of the environmental review of Interstate 15 reconstruction through Utah County. State officials are now allowed to begin right-of-way acquisition, design and construction.
"Now we really have a project," said Nile Easton, spokesman for the Utah Department of Transportation. "We're on target for spring of 2010. That's when construction will begin."
For $2.6 billion, the residents of Utah will get several things:
• The project will widen I-15 by two lanes in each direction between American Fork and Spanish Fork, a 50- to 66-percent increase in capacity.
• Many of the interchanges will be rebuilt or reconfigured, as will many bridges. Some of them aren't up to height standards, the result being that they're occasionally clipped by semitrailers.
• Utahns may not know that the project has broader implications. It is part of an 840-mile route connecting San Diego to Salt Lake City that was chosen last year as one of six "Corridors of the Future" by the U.S. Department of Transportation.
But I want it now!
Though construction won't begin until spring of 2010, UDOT has plenty to do. It has to put a request for proposal together as well as straighten out all the right-of-way issues.
"There's actually quite a bit of work to do between now and then," Easton said.
The construction is also expected to take four years, meaning plenty of time to get used to the orange barrels. Easton said UDOT will be using the same design-build process that worked so well on the Salt Lake portion of I-15.
Design-build gives the contractor a little more control and oversight, he said. The trade-off is that projects get done in half the time of traditional methods.
"We still have some oversight, of course. It's not like we wash our hands of the project for four years," he said. |
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| The Keeper
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Aug 27 2008 12:01:47
Utahns may not know that the project has broader implications. It is part of an 840-mile route connecting San Diego to Salt Lake City that was chosen last year as one of six "Corridors of the Future" by the U.S. Department of Transportation.
Here's the "broader implications"! The title of this article should have been, "Feds greenlight I-15 Canamex NAFTA Trade Corridor".
Along which, Mexican truckers, displacing American truckers, will speed your ChiCom slave-made goods to you through ChiCom outlet stores such as Wal-Mart.
Orin Hatch, Bob Bennett, and Chris Cannon...just doing the job no patriotic American would ever do!
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| forgetfuljones
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Aug 27 2008 13:35:15
/Design-build gives the contractor a little more /control and oversight, he said. The trade-off is /that projects get done in half the time of /traditional methods.
Huh? Does this make sense to anyone else? I think maybe someone meant "advantage" rather than "trade-off". But it does bring up the question of whether there are trade-offs that weren't mentioned in the article. Like, for example, does it interfere with traffic more than traditional methods?
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| Sir John the Apostate
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Aug 27 2008 13:52:59
The Keeper wrote:
Utahns may not know that the project has broader implications. It is part of an 840-mile route connecting San Diego to Salt Lake City that was chosen last year as one of six "Corridors of the Future" by the U.S. Department of Transportation.
Here's the "broader implications"! The title of this article should have been, "Feds greenlight I-15 Canamex NAFTA Trade Corridor".
Along which, Mexican truckers, displacing American truckers, will speed your ChiCom slave-made goods to you through ChiCom outlet stores such as Wal-Mart.
Orin Hatch, Bob Bennett, and Chris Cannon...just doing the job no patriotic American would ever do!
"ChiCom"
Are you stuck in an episode of Hawaii Five 0 or something?
Tell us what part Woo Fat plays in all of this?
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| The Keeper
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Aug 27 2008 18:09:29
Sir John the Apostate wrote:
The Keeper wrote:
Utahns may not know that the project has broader implications. It is part of an 840-mile route connecting San Diego to Salt Lake City that was chosen last year as one of six "Corridors of the Future" by the U.S. Department of Transportation.
Here's the "broader implications"! The title of this article should have been, "Feds greenlight I-15 Canamex NAFTA Trade Corridor".
Along which, Mexican truckers, displacing American truckers, will speed your ChiCom slave-made goods to you through ChiCom outlet stores such as Wal-Mart.
Orin Hatch, Bob Bennett, and Chris Cannon...just doing the job no patriotic American would ever do!
"ChiCom"
Are you stuck in an episode of Hawaii Five 0 or something?
Tell us what part Woo Fat plays in all of this?
Woo is up in Canada taking over the government!
For Canadian diplomat Brian McAdam, it wasn't that he had uncovered the lucrative sale of Canadian visas during his posting at Canada's Hong Kong consulate.
Both Canadian and Chinese consular staff, he says, were selling visas to members of the Chinese mafia and Communist China's intelligence service. The price, he heard, ranged from $10,000 to $100,000 per visa.
And Canada, he says, is now known as "one of the world's centres for Chinese organized crime and espionage."
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| Sir John the Apostate
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Aug 27 2008 18:19:31
The Keeper wrote:
Sir John the Apostate wrote:
The Keeper wrote:
Utahns may not know that the project has broader implications. It is part of an 840-mile route connecting San Diego to Salt Lake City that was chosen last year as one of six "Corridors of the Future" by the U.S. Department of Transportation.
Here's the "broader implications"! The title of this article should have been, "Feds greenlight I-15 Canamex NAFTA Trade Corridor".
Along which, Mexican truckers, displacing American truckers, will speed your ChiCom slave-made goods to you through ChiCom outlet stores such as Wal-Mart.
Orin Hatch, Bob Bennett, and Chris Cannon...just doing the job no patriotic American would ever do!
"ChiCom"
Are you stuck in an episode of Hawaii Five 0 or something?
Tell us what part Woo Fat plays in all of this?
Woo is up in Canada taking over the government!
For Canadian diplomat Brian McAdam, it wasn't that he had uncovered the lucrative sale of Canadian visas during his posting at Canada's Hong Kong consulate.
Both Canadian and Chinese consular staff, he says, were selling visas to members of the Chinese mafia and Communist China's intelligence service. The price, he heard, ranged from $10,000 to $100,000 per visa.
And Canada, he says, is now known as "one of the world's centres for Chinese organized crime and espionage."
Well by all means you and Dano get up there and, take care of it.
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