Bridges

BOUNTIFUL -- The state plans to replace three bridges along Interstate 15 in Davis County -- but officials say the trick will be doing it with as little impact as possible.

At a Utah Transportation Commission meeting last week, Utah Department of Transportation officials said plans are in the works to perform major bridge deck replacements along I-15 at 500 South in Bountiful and 1500 South and 2600 South in Woods Cross.

Unlike the famous nursery rhyme, Utah bridges are not falling down.

The Ogden-Clearfield metropolitan area ranks 11th out of the country's top 102 metropolitan areas for the lowest percentage of structurally deficient bridges, according to a study released Wednesday by Transportation for America, a transportation watchdog group.

Of the more than 300 bridges in the Ogden-Clearfield area, which consists of Davis, Weber and Morgan counties, only 3.2 percent are structurally deficient, according to the study.

WASHINGTON -- There's nothing wrong with America's infrastructure that trillions of dollars can't cure.

Any number of recent studies has cited the nation's crumbling roads, deteriorating bridges, inefficient airports and leaky dams as a reason for public concern and a deterioration of America's standing on the international stage.

SALT LAKE CITY -- Transportation officials plan this weekend to slide a new 2.5 million-pound bridge into place using dish soap to grease the skids and reduce friction.

RIVERDALE — A UDOT official was sending a message Monday to assure motorists that the underside of a bridge that takes traffic from southbound Interstate 15 to eastbound I-84 is safe.