Once, a car tire came through the window of their home. A front yard tree has been taken out by car wrecks twice. Now they are hoping to win the UDOT lottery.

Dennis and Diana Carter have lived on a Geneva Road intersection in Pleasant Grove since 1970, and with accidents threatening their property once a month on average, they've had it. They want nothing more than for UDOT to buy the house and tear it down.

Nearly 200 people gathered in Vineyard on Wednesday night to see three possible futures for Geneva Road and comment on which they would like the state to choose. UDOT's $100 million plan is to widen the road to as many as seven lanes in some places.

At Wednesday's meeting UDOT laid out table-sized maps showing three possibilities -- expand Geneva to the east, to the west, or from the center, taking additional land from both sides. The Carters are rooting for the road to go east enough to take out their house. UDOT expects to choose one of the expansion plans, or a combination of the three, by early summer 2008, and will hold another public hearing at that time, said UDOT spokesman Geoff Dupaix.

"It's a dangerous corner," Diana Carter said of her home. "We have no backyard or privacy and we are on display (to the gas station across the street) every time we step out the door."

The couple would like to take a UDOT payout and move to a rambler in the north end of the county. Worst-case scenario, however, is that UDOT will just take part of their yard, leaving the couple to live out their lives with the road closer than ever.

"I would fight it," Dennis Carter said of that possibility. "I don't know how I would fight it, but I would."

Grant and Barbara Holdaway said the state must choose to take land from the center -- their home and livelihood depend on it. The couple own Vineyard Garden Center on Geneva Road, and their home is directly across the street. Expanding to the east would take out the parking lot of their business, ruining it, while expanding to the west would take their home, they said.

And as a Vineyard Town Council member, Grant Holdaway said he fears UDOT will push west, feeling Vineyard can take the hit more easily than Orem on the east side of the street. Going down the center would be most fair, he said.

Michelle Leckie of Provo grew up on Geneva Road and has rented her grandmother's home here for the past seven years. Expanding to the east would either take out the house or bring the road to abut it, she said.

"I don't mind, if I can buy the lot and build a house on the back of the lot," she said. "I like the area because it is close enough to town that it is not like living in the boondocks, but I still have a view. Most days I don't mind the traffic, as long as I have a fenced yard."

The owner of a large business along Geneva Road in Orem said he came to the meeting only to discover his business is doomed. All three of UDOT's proposals would include razing his building, he said. He asked his name not be used as he has not begun negotiations with UDOT.

Because his building is used by several tenants, the future is unsure, and everything will depend "on how well they (UDOT) take care of us," he said. "They say we will be taken care of, but will wefi"

After months of study, UDOT has come up with a complex proposal that includes widening the road to seven lanes between Center Street and University Parkway in Orem, and widths varying from three to five lanes the rest of the length of the road, said Dupaix of UDOT.

For more information, visit www.udot.utah.gov/geneva, or call Jessica Wilson, public involvement specialist, at 763-5256 or e-mail genevaroadeis@horrocks.com.