Wednesday marked another benchmark in the state Legislature’s billion-plus-dollar effort to solve the region’s traffic crisis as UDOT broke ground on the freeway project ... UDOT Executive DirectorCarlos ...
UDOTRegion 3DirectorEric Rasband told the Payson City Council in a 2025 meeting that the project is necessary to keep up with growth in Payson and improve traffic flow ... UDOT is completing the design ...
UDOTRegion Three Project ManagerCraig Hancock said Wednesday that number is on “the high end” of what the entity was expecting in terms of public input ... The sheer number of comments may push back UDOT’s timeline, according to Hancock.
Rowland pointed to recent litigation by conservation groups against the NorthernCorridor highway in Washington County as an example of how UDOT “can use feedback.” ... UDOT plans to publish that statement in the late summer.
"We’ve worked with Salt Lake City and UDOT to say 'just come up with an agreement'," Christofferson said ... "Construction fatigue is real," UDOT executive director Carlo Braceras told a legislative panel in October.
UDOT in January selected Alternative B, which cuts through the NorthFields between Potters Lane and 900 S instead of keeping traffic on U.S ... He said the historic nature of the North Fields is one thing UDOT failed to address.
UDOT estimates 54 acres of canals, ditches, perennial streams and wetlands in the NorthFields will be impacted by Alternative B for the Heber Valley bypass ... This map does not represent a final design and will not be included in the letter to UDOT.
Heber • A line of tractors and cars rumbled through Heber on Saturday, reviving a protest tactic popular in the late 1970s, when farmers nationwide would roll their rigs through towns to make their voices heard. .
UDOT’s plan is to rebuild the west side of the bridge first, followed by the east side ... Woolley said UDOT has seen people starting to follow suggestions to avoid the route and use alternative routes.
Salt Lake City will be the only municipality in Utah under this new "framework." And its practical effect will be to hand UDOT a veto over city-initiated projects on otherwise city-controlled rights of way.