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ST. GEORGE — Traffic on Interstate 15 passing through the Exit 16 interchange in Southern Utah will be put through a new traffic pattern next week as work crews set to demolish parts of the bridge structure. A temporary change to traffic for the ramps on and off the interchange will begin Friday.
The Exit 16 interchange project in one of a handful of projects in the I-15 through Washington County corridor that the Utah Department of Transportation is engaged in or studying.
According to a UDOT update, the inside of the new bridge structure is nearly complete, which prompted the work crews to prepare for the pending traffic shift expected to take place Monday and Tuesday.
“I-15 traffic will be shifted from the two outside lanes in each direction to the two inside lanes in each direction over the new portion of the bridge,” according to UDOT.
The project began Feb. 11 and is anticipated to run through November. It is the latest in a series of improvements recommended by a 2013 study that focused on the I-15 corridor between miles 0 and 16, according to UDOT.
Read the full article, including other UDOT projects of note in Washington County, at St. George News.
