Highway Safety Improvement Roadside Safety efforts are targeted towards keeping vehicles from leaving the roadway and mitigating crash severity when vehicles do leave the road. UDOT uses rumble strips, cable barriers, guardrails, and concrete barriers are all used to mitigate crash severity.
The Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT) has is finishing a two-mile safety improvement project on U.S. Highway 191 between La Sal Junction and Hole-‘N’-The-Rock that will require regular road closures to accommodate blasting.
The project was designed to improve recovery for vehicles that wander from the travel lanes by excavating into existing rock cuts and upgrading barrier to new standards or removing barrier where slopes can be leveled.
Blasting work has been completed on this project. Minor site Final grade work and seeding will be completed in the spring.
Single lane closures with alternating traffic and delays of up to 20 minutes may be anticipated.
Project impacts to travel can be found on the UDOT Traffic website, www.udot.utah.gov/traffic.
Please help others plan their travel around these times by sharing this web page address with others: www.udot.utah.gov/go/191blasting.
Updated January 21, 2020
Construction Inquiries
udotregion4@utah.gov
Project Manager
Brett E. Anderson (435) 979-4545 beanderson@utah.gov
