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SR14 in Southern Utah to reopen in July

Last updated Sunday, April 8, 2012 - 9:30pm

CEDAR CITY — State transportation officials say a state highway in Southern Utah closed by a massive landslide in October is scheduled to reopen with limited access June 1 and with full access by July 4.

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Trucks on federal highways could soon be heavier

Gordon Dickson Fort Worth Star-Telegram

Last updated Monday, January 30, 2012 - 10:52am

Drivers could share the highways with much heavier trucks if Congress decides that the efficiencies of larger loads trump concerns about road damage and safety.

The Safe and Efficient Transportation Act would raise the maximum weight for commercial trucks that routinely travel on highways to 97,000 pounds in most states.

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At approximately 3:13 a "Conway" Semi truck pulling a single trailer was struck by a red Peter built Semi pulling an empty tanker trailer after it jack knifed and hit the slower moving Conway trailer. Both trucks were either in or near the emergency lane when a "CRST" semi pulling a box trailer lost control and jack knifed sliding into the tanker truck. The driver of the Conway truck is a 34 year old male from SLC, Ut and was transported to the Hospital with facial and head injuries. The 67 year old female driver of the tanker truck along with her 59 year old husband who had been in the sleeper were transported to the hospital. The female by ground ambulance with chest injuries and the male by helicopter with chest and back injuries. (UHP COURTESY PHOTO)

Ice and slick roads trigger I-84 pileup in Box Elder

Scott Schwebke Standard-Examiner

Last updated Friday, January 20, 2012 - 12:40pm

TREMONTON-- A series of crashes involving three semitrailers, a passenger car and a Box Elder County Sheriff's patrol vehicle closed I-84 near Tremonton for about four hours early this morning.

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File - In this August 23, 2010 photo 14 Steel crosses line the northbound side of Interstate 15 in Hurricane, Utah Each cross represents a Utah Highway Patrolman that fell in the line of duty. A federal judge is being asked to sign final settlement papers in a lawsuit over the 14 roadside crosses. The papers were submitted to U.S. District Judge David Sam on Friday Jan.13,2012. The agreement calls for the removal of the crosses from Utah's highways and other location by Feb. 26. (AP Photo/Cobb Condie/Salt Lake Tribune, File)

Judge asked to sign final order in highway cross dispute

Jennifer Dobner The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, January 17, 2012 - 11:00am

SALT LAKE CITY -- Final settlement papers in a lawsuit over 14 roadside crosses honoring Utah troopers killed in the line of duty have been submitted to the courts and are awaiting the approval of a federal judge, court records show.

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UDOT purchases two more properties for U.S. 89 expansion

Mitch Shaw Standard-Examiner

Last updated Saturday, January 14, 2012 - 11:04pm

SALT LAKE CITY -- The state is continuing its planned expansion of Highway 89 through Davis County at a furious pace, acquiring two more properties along the road on Friday.

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Legislative three-card Monte: Roads win, everyone else loses

Charles F. Trentelman Standard-Examiner

Last updated Tuesday, January 10, 2012 - 12:56am

We ran a scary story last week about how much highways are going to cost Utah over the next 30 years. The tab is $69 billion, a chunk of that just in the Top of Utah.

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UDOT looks to combat freeway vandalism

Mitch Shaw Standard-Examiner

Last updated Wednesday, December 21, 2011 - 3:10pm

LAYTON -- The Utah Department of Transportation hopes new signs on Interstate 15 will end a decade's old headache for them.

Starting in Salt Lake County and working their way north, UDOT crews will begin to repair the I-15 lighting system where vandals have damaged it or stolen valuable components. In most cases, thieves have gone after the copper wire in those lighting fixtures.

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Photo illustration by BRYAN NIELSEN/Standard-Examiner

Crashed? Get off the road, say UDOT & UHP

Mitch Shaw Standard-Examiner

Last updated Tuesday, November 29, 2011 - 9:09am

LAYTON -- Next time you get into a fender bender on the freeway, the state wants you to take it off the road.

The Utah Department of Transportation has begun a new campaign to alert motorists involved in minor traffic accidents to move off busy roadways when exchanging insurance information with other drivers or waiting for the police.

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Landslide buries Utah road under 100 feet of dirt

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, October 12, 2011 - 8:31am

CEDAR CITY — Utah transportation officials have closed a state highway east of Cedar City after a massive landslide buried part of the roadway in about 100 feet of dirt and rock.

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USU researchers examine animal car collisions on I-84

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, September 13, 2011 - 1:01pm

TWIN FALLS, Idaho -- A group of Idaho sportsmen and researchers from Utah State University are working to keep deer and other wildlife off of Interstate 84.

Jack Oyler, vice chairman of Sportsmen for Fish and Wildlife-Idaho and a member of a state committee dedicated to reducing wildlife collisions, is heading a study to analyze herd migration patterns near a 10-mile stretch of I-84 near the Utah border.

The Times-News (http://bit.ly/ni0W7i ) reports that with the help of state agencies, he has raised $23,000 to install cameras along the interstate, and researchers from

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I-15 construction project 50 percent complete

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, September 12, 2011 - 9:29am

PROVO -- Authorities say a 35-month project to rebuild 24 miles of Interstate 15 through Utah County is 50 percent complete.

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Officials to use Teflon, dish soap to move bridge

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, August 12, 2011 - 3:59pm

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.

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Utah County drivers to be ticketed for running out of gas

The Associated Press The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, August 3, 2011 - 1:27pm

PROVO -- Drivers who run out of gas in a construction zone on Interstate 15 through Utah County will be facing tickets.

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Earth First! may target highway 'megaloads'

Elaine Williams, The Lewiston Morning Tribune McClatchy Newspapers

Last updated Thursday, June 23, 2011 - 3:50pm

LEWISTON, Idaho -- Civil disobedience, possibly against megaloads, is planned for July 13 after an Earth First! Rendezvous along U.S. Highway 12 in Montana.

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