It's orange cone season

UDOT crews are widening roads, maintaining bridges and repaving existing highways around the state

Summer is here and with it comes traffic snarls as the Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT) ramps up construction on 209 projects with a value of $2.74 billion.

UDOT reminds motorists to plan ahead and stay informed, as these projects will require lane closures, detours and new traffic patterns while under construction. Planned improvements range from repaving rural highways to building freeway-style interchanges and widening, repaving, demolishing and building bridges. Projects also include several new Please log in to see the rest of this story.