
IVINS — Save for a few finishing touches, the first phase on the widening of Old Dixie Highway 91 is complete.
New roundabout at Old Dixie Highway 91 and 400 West, Ivins, Utah, Oct. 19, 2023 | Photo by Chris Reed, St. George News
“For the most part, it’s done,” Ivins Public Works Director Chuck Gillette told the Ivins City Council during its Thursday meeting.
The work on phase one began in February and has consisted of widening the 91 from 200 West to Kwavasa Drive as well as adding two roundabouts and adding bike lanes and walking trails from 200 East to Fire Lake Park. The construction led to some lane closures and red cones since then on the secondary highway from Utah to Arizona.
With work done, along with the blackness of fresh asphalt there are now roundabouts at 400 West and Kwavasa. There are also right-hand turn lanes where before, traffic on the 91 would grind to a halt if someone made a right-hand turn.
Something that may look unfinished are some of the medians. The middle medians include partial tarmac and dirt in the middle.
Widening completed on Old Dixie Highway 91 and 400 West, Ivins, Utah, Oct. 19, 2023 | Photo by Chris Reed, St. George News
Gillette said funding did not include concrete curves and landscaping though the council discussed Thursday doing some plantings and watering in the dirt portions.
After a fall and winter free of construction on Old Dixie Highway 91, phase two is expected to begin next year between Kwavasa and the Shivwits Reservation.
That road work is expected to be wider than the first phase, with two lanes in each direction.
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Chris Reed serves as a reporter for St. George News, where he has been honored with several awards from the Society of Professional Journalists for his work, including first-place accolades. He started his journalism career as a sports reporter and editor in Southern California where he once compared shoe sizes with Shaquille O’Neal and exchanged mix tapes with members of the Los Angeles Kings. After growing up in the San Fernando Valley learning karate skills from Mr. Miyagi and spending a decade in Las Vegas mostly avoiding the casinos, he came to St. George for love and married his soulmate, a lifetime Southern Utah resident. He is the proud father of two boys, his youngest a champion against both autism and Type 1 diabetes.
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