The Utah Department of Transportation announced their construction projects on Monday for 2018. According to their press release, the projects will widen Highway 40 in two locations and repave areas of other local highways. The addition of passing lanes to Highway 40 is the largest of the projects listed. The plan is to construct passing lanes in both the eastbound and westbound directions between Bridgeland and Myton from Mile Post 97 to 106. This project follows a series of projects on Highway 40 that have “added passing lanes, enhanced intersections, and constructed new acceleration and deceleration lanes to help enhance highway safety and better accommodate the extensive truck traffic in the region.” Construction on the new passing lanes is scheduled to begin this spring and finish up in the fall. UDOT has 188 highway construction projects scheduled for 2018, spending $1.46 billion dollars statewide.
