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Redwood Road Project Is Among UDOT’s 2019 Priorities By Cindy Riley CEG CORRESPONDENT

Considered one of the top ten construction priorities for the Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT) in 2018, the I-215 Redwood Road project requires crews to build a new bridge east of the existing Redwood Road bridge over I-215. The ongoing work also includes converting the existing I215 and Redwood Road interchange to a diverging diamond interchange. “This change helps reduce congestion and backing that was happening nightly for northbound I215,” said UDOT project manager Brett Slater. “The project also UDOT photo

A total of 115,000 cu. yds. of material will be moved on the project, including the various types of material needed to construct the roadways.

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Reconstructing I-215 from the I-15 interchange in North Salt Lake to 2200 North has required a great deal of coordination.

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removes and replaces the concrete pavement on I-215 from 2100 South to the I-15 connection to the north. The existing pavement had met its serviceable life, and was beginning to show excessive signs of wear. This new concrete will provide a new 30-year life to this section of I-215.” Construction involves reconstructing and adding an additional lane on Redwood Road from

Center Street to I-215. A high percentage of commercial truck traffic uses this section of Redwood Road daily. The new roadway will help accommodate the increased traffic, pedestrians and bicyclists. “The last part of this project is a roadway maintenance project along Redwood Road from Center Street in North Salt Lake to 500 South in Woods Cross,” said Slater. “This maintenance project

removed and replaced the top three inches of asphalt, giving a new ride and a longer life to this roadway.” Redwood Road has an average daily traffic of 14,000 vehicles, with 22 percent truck traffic. I-215 has an average daily traffic of 36,000 with 19 percent truck traffic. With the number of motorists using this stretch continually growing, the congestion and delays will only get worse if changes are not made. Slater said the ongoing effort is worth the temporary inconveniences. “Like any project reconstructing a roadway, congestion will occur. UDOT, along with the contractor, have tried to limit those impacts while trying to get this project built. We were able to maintain the existing number of lanes on I-215 during peak hours every day, with just a few exceptions. This minimized the impacts to the I-215 traffic. “The reconstruction of Redwood Road was a little bit more challenging. With major utility relocation, canal crossings and a new storm drain system, traffic was reduced to one lane in each direction. Business access was maintained, and a strong public involvement program was in place to keep motorists and business informed about the project. By see INTERCHANGE page 6

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Keeping Up With Growth...

Population Changes Could Impact Transportation Planning Upward and downward population shifts across several states over the past year may impact transportation planning on several levels, especially as part of land-management strategies. Data compiled by the U.S. Census Bureau indicate that the populations of Nevada and Idaho grew the most percentage-wise — some 2.1 percent each — between July 1, 2017, and July 1, 2018, followed by Utah at 1.9 percent, Arizona with 1.7 percent, and Florida and Washington, which tied for fourth at 1.5 percent each. In Utah, the rate of population growth convinced Gov. Gary Herbert (R) to devote more of his state’s budgetary resources to housing, land-management and transportation needs. “With the available land along the Wasatch Front becoming ever more limited, understanding the interrelationships between land use, transportation, housing, water, air quality and revenues is essential for preserving our quality of life,” he said in a statement on Dec. 6. “Affordable, thriving communities require physical infrastructure, including transportation and water infrastructure, along with breathable air and open space where residents can recreate.” [The completion of four new interchanges along Bangerter Highway by the Utah

Department of Transportation in November last year represents one aspect of such transportation needs.]. To that end, Gov. Herbert proposed spending $30 million to help fund transitoriented development and affordable housing, along with establishing more public parks, as part of the $19 billion budget he offered for Fiscal Year 2020. “Individuals and families in Utah are looking for affordable homes, places to shop, parks and trails where they can recreate, safe and smart schools where they can learn, clinics and hospitals where they can get quality health care, and sanctuaries where they can worship,” Gov. Herbert said. “All of these important activities that are part and parcel of our unprecedented quality of life require the infrastructure of safe, wellfunctioning roads, transit, and utilities,” he said. The Census Bureau’s national and state population estimates also indicated population declines in nine states, including New York (down 48,510), Illinois (45,116), West Virginia (11,216), Louisiana (10,840), Hawaii (3,712), Mississippi (3,133), Alaska (2,348), Connecticut (1,215) and Wyoming (1,197). Such declines also are spurring more transportation investment on the part of state

governments as a way to help convince residents to stay, as well as attract new ones. For example, in June, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) announced $57.7 million in state and federal funding for 136 rural public transportation projects statewide — largely for bus service — that’s being administered by the New York State Department of Transportation and supported through grants from the Federal Transit Administration. “Transportation infrastructure is the lifeblood of our economy and the key to future growth,” Gov. Cuomo said in a statement. “This funding will bolster upstate mobility operations and help ensure that all New Yorkers, regardless of their location, will have a transportation infrastructure they can rely on.” Other U.S. population trend data released by the Census Bureau includes the following: • As a whole, the U.S. population continues to grow — expanding by 0.6 percent to over 328 million by July 1, 2018 — due to both “natural increase” and international migration. • Though international migration was slightly higher last year (978,826 compared to 953,233 the year before), natural increase was slightly lower last year (1,041,487 com-

pared to 1,122,546 the year before). • Texas had the largest numeric growth over the last year, with an increase of 379,128 people. Texas grew both from having more births than deaths and from net gains in movers from within and outside the United States. • Florida had the highest level of net domestic migration in the last year, at 132,602. Since 2010, Florida has gained a total of 1,160,387 people from net domestic migration. • Washington D.C. reached a population of 702,455 in July 2018, surpassing 700,000 for the first time since 1975; a change is due primarily to an influx of people from other parts of the country that began early in the decade. While the increase has begun to slow, the District of Columbia still grew by almost 1 percent last year. The Census Bureau stressed that its estimates do not reflect the effects of Hurricane Florence in September 2018, Hurricane Michael in October 2018 and the California Wildfires. During 2019, the Census Bureau will release estimates of the 2018 population for counties, cities and towns, and metropolitan and micropolitan statistical areas, as well as national, state and county population estimates by age, sex, race and Hispanic origin.

Utah Maintains AAA Credit Rating, Saves Money on Projects Gov. Gary Herbert and Treasurer David Damschen announced that S&P Global, Moody’s Investors Service and Fitch Ratings have reaffirmed the State’s AAA credit rating — the highest rating a state can receive. “Utah once again stands out as a leader in the nation for its broad fiscal and economic success, which can be largely credited to our conservative approach to budgeting, debt management and other financial policies,” Herbert said. “In Utah, we are thorough and collaborative in our fiscal management. We have worked closely with the legislature to adhere to the principles of fiscal discipline and budgetary restraint, making our state one of only a handful to receive a AAA rating by all three rating agencies. I applaud the Utah team for this collective achievement.” Agencies base their ratings on a range of financial, economic, managerial and institutional factors. Utah’s history of continuous AAA bond ratings dates back to 1965, when S&P initiated its rating system. The State’s AAA rating with Moody’s commenced in 1973 and with Fitch Ratings in 1992. “We’re seeing overwhelming demand from investors for

our bonds,” Damschen said. “This is in clear response to the strength of our credit, which allows us to finance large projects at the lowest interest rates available in the market and ultimately save big for Utah taxpayers.” The rating affirmations coincide with the legislatively authorized $128 million general obligation (GO) bond transaction, which will finance transportation projects. During the December special legislative session, the governor and legislature jointly approved additional appropriations for the prison project, which eliminated the need to borrow for the prison project this year and significantly reduced today’s transaction from the initially-planned $375 million — increasing savings on prison project costs. As cited in the rating reports, the agencies’ rationales for Utah’s strong ratings include: • Strong governmental framework, with a constitutional requirement to maintain a balanced budget and a fiscal policy that allows for changes to the revenue structure and program spending by a simple majority of the legislature. • Conservative fiscal and debt management policies that

include constitutional or statutory limits on appropriation growth and debt issuance to keep debt levels low and quickly amortizing, despite demands of population growth. • Continued leadership in the management and funding of long-term liabilities for pensions and other post-retirement benefits, leading to low fixed costs relative to its peers and contributing to the state’s good budgetary flexibility. • Successful and timely action when addressing budgetary imbalances. • Reserve funds that accumulate based on a statutorily determined formula. • Job growth across most major sectors, including solid growth in trade, transportation and utilities — the state’s largest employment sector. • An unemployment rate that is typically well below the national average. • Annual real GDP growth that has continuously surpassed the nation’s since 2013 and is expected to continue to outperform the nation due to a favorable industry mix and strong population growth.

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Materials From Homes Ready for Demolition Gain New Life Habitat for Humanity volunteers began working Jan. 16 to remove building materials such as doors, windows, cabinets and light fixtures from several UDOT-owned homes in Midvale. These homes are scheduled for demolition to accommodate a future widening project on I-15 northbound between 9000 South and the I-215 interchange. The reclaimed building materials are then sold through Habitat for Humanity’s ReStore in Salt Lake City, and the proceeds from these sales help fund Habitat for Humanity’s efforts to build homes for those in need. Over the past five years, UDOT and Habitat for Humanity have partnered to reclaim materials from nearly 130 houses.

These houses were all acquired by UDOT as part of major construction projects to build new highways such as Mountain View Corridor or widen existing ones such as I-15 and Bangerter Highway. These houses were all acquired by UDOT as part of major construction projects to build new highways such as Mountain View Corridor or widen existing ones such as I-15 and Bangerter Highway.

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Crews Build New Bridge, Diverging Diamond Interchange INTERCHANGE from page 1

keeping the public informed, we did not receive a lot of feedback or complaints while construction was taking place. Several design options were evaluated, but at this location, a diverging diamond interchange met the traffic needs today and into the foreseeable future, according to Slater. “There are several advantages to our design, and one of them is Maintenance of Traffic (MOT) phasing. By utilizing the existing structure and building a new second structure off line next to the existing structure, interchange traffic was maintained during construction.” The majority of the work will be completed within the next few months, but due to settlement issues, the surcharge material will not be removed for another month, forcing the new bridge to be built in 2019. “This was a fast-paced project, with the contractor working around the clock during a lot of the construction, in order to minimize impacts to the traveling public.” One of the biggest challenges is soil settlement for the new bridge structure. Geotechnical issues create an unknown time component in a project that makes it hard to

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schedule the work. “On this project utilities and storm drain have been a challenge, as this area has an extremely high water table, which slows us down, forces extra work and tough working conditions. Another challenge for us is the large volume of traffic. We need to keep a certain number of lanes open during peak

hours. This has been a challenge to minimize impacts to commuters and businesses, while still getting the work done.” Reconstructing I-215 from the I-15 interchange in North Salt Lake to 2200 North has required a great deal of coordination. “To reconstruct a concrete freeway, we need to close the lanes being redone for a

long period of time,” said Slater. “Temporary widening is first required, in order to move traffic out of the lanes under construction. Once this traffic control is in place, removal and replacement operations can begin. “The old concrete is broken up and removed, and the underlying pavement section is replaced and then new concrete is placed. It then takes typically two to three weeks for the concrete to cure before it can be sealed and traffic placed on it.” As for constructing the new diverging diamond interchange at Redwood Road and I215, “The biggest element of the diverging diamond here is the construction of the new bridge. Once that is complete, the ramps up to the bridges can be completed.” Currently, crews are working on the I-215 section between Redwood Road and I-15, also while widening Redwood Road from I215 to Center Street in North Salt Lake City. “We have completed the milling and overlay of Redwood Road from Center Street to 500 South and the I-215 work south of the Legacy Interchange. We have completed the surcharge activities for the new bridge, which allow the settlement to occur at the fastest pace possible.” see INTERCHANGE page 7

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Interchange Bridge Due to Begin Construction This Year INTERCHANGE from page 6

With winter in full swing, concrete work needs to be covered to prevent freezing, and asphalt work cannot start until temperatures are at 50 degrees. Slater said the condition of the property before work began was less than ideal. “The pavement on I-215 had a lot of potholes, cracks and substandard smoothness. This is why UDOT decided to replace these sections. Redwood Road carries a lot of traffic, and needed to be widened from I-215 to Center Street. The condition of the asphalt from Center Street to 500 South was deteriorating, necessitating that three inches be milled off and a new riding surface placed for longevity of the roadway. “All clearing and grubbing, which is only done in areas where we widen the roadway, has been completed. Soon, we will stabilize all of these areas outside our construction with a seed mix and mulch to prevent erosion. Those slopes will look much better then.” This area of the Salt Lake Valley has a high water table that has made excavation

difficult while installing the project storm drain system. A lot of dewatering has been needed in order to construct the system, especially with the two canals that needed work done. A total of 115,000 cu. yds. of material will be moved on the project, including the various types of material needed to construct the roadways. An estimated 77,000 sq. yds. of concrete also will have been placed, along with 50,000 tons of asphalt. Main equipment being used on the project includes trackhoes, graders, paving machines, dump trucks and rollers. Various types of soil, asphalt and concrete also are required to complete the work. “This project has a lot of work involved in the different sections. For I-215, the timeconsuming part is waiting for the concrete to cure. For the bridge structure, it’s waiting for the settlement to take place.” Slater added, “We have had a great working relationship with North Salt Lake City during this project. They have been great partners.” CEG

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