Highway down to 1 lane to guard work zone in Thistle
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah (Aug. 28, 2025) — The Utah Department of Transportation is advising vacation drivers utilizing westbound U.S. Route 6 to plan for reasonable journey delays on Monday, Sept. 1.
UDOT site visitors engineers estimate drivers on westbound US-6 will expertise as much as half-hour of extra delay between 11 a.m. and eight p.m. on Monday, Sept. 1, with peak delays occurring between 2:30 and 4 p.m.
Across the state, most UDOT tasks will droop development and open all lanes to site visitors to assist scale back delays over the vacation weekend, however sure present lane restrictions or site visitors shifts will stay in place as wanted to guard the work zone and guarantee security.
This consists of each instructions of US-6 from Diamond Fork Road to the U.S. Route 89 junction in Thistle. The freeway is decreased to 1 lane whereas crews set up a number of concrete median boundaries, enhance overhead lighting and repair drainage programs within the space.
Several different routes will expertise minor journey delays on Friday, Aug. 29, together with:
- Southbound Interstate 15, Salt Lake County: Up to fifteen minutes of extra delay between 1 and eight p.m., with peak delays occurring between 4 and 6 p.m.
- Eastbound US-6: Up to 10 minutes of extra delay between 2 and 6 p.m., with peak delays occurring at 3 p.m.