Soaring traffic and two bike fatalities on Old Highway 91 are prompting Ivins leaders to launch an $8.9 million makeover of a three-mile stretch of the highway that bisects the town in southwest Utah.
Traffic volumes on Old Highway 91 averaged 2,100 cars per day during 2019, the most recent numbers available. That’s over three times the 660 cars per day in 2016.
“We’ve had two fatalities in the past 15 years where a vehicle has collided with a cyclist because there’s no real shoulder on Highway 91 for bikes to ride on,” said Ivins Public Works Director Chuck Gillette. Myron Lee, transportation planning director for the Dixie Metropolitan Planning Organization, said the traffic numbers this year are undoubtedly much higher than in 2019 due to all the new construction and vehicles being diverted from the interstate to Highway 91.
Currently, the city is too cash-strapped to fund both phases of the project but does have roughly $8.9 million to tackle the initial phase — over $3.5 million from the Dixie Metropolitan Planning Organization, $809,000 from the Utah Department of Transportation, and $710,000 from the Washington County Council of Governments. Ivins has committed over $3.8 million for the initial phase, according to Gillette.
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