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Projects[edit]

I created the Projects section because I feel like we should give some information about the various projects of UDOT. I only added one so the section needs a lot of expansion, but I think it's a worthwhile project. I'm collecting information about I-15CORE. Jhunt47 (talk) 05:02, 25 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

My advise is to be careful. Experience has shown that sections such as this are difficult to maintain. First, funding for transportation projects are subject to change with political winds. I could easily fill this page to 50k of text listing orphaned project that were seriously considered at one time (some even funded) only to be abandoned before any significant construction began. Unless you are signing up to check this page every six months for the rest of your life, the page could become full of orphaned projects and out-of-date information in just a year or two. Checking the addition you just made, this is a perfect example, UDOT has not been tasked to build this bridge, only study the feasibility. UDOT says, not feasible, not worth the cost, and boom the project fades into distant memories. (or Orin Hatch milks the feds for a couple of billion in pork barrel funds and had the thing built and named in his honor, these projects can go either way =-) ).

Second, experience has shown that sections of this sort tend to attract a lot of junk. By that I mean people adding projects that are only being pushed by a roadgeek fantasy site (yes they do exist) and perhaps a local chamber of commerce or two. Unfortunately, we have articles about such fantasies that have survived efforts to delete them, (_cough_ Interstate 9, _cough_ Interstate 11, _cough_ Interstate 3). (Look no further than the claim on the I-11 article that the non-existent, locally-proposed, road-geek fantasy freeway I-11 will be used to satisfy the requirements of NAFTA, when the actual website for the freeway construction project does not even acknowledge the fantasy of this freeway ever existing). IMO, this idea could spiral out of control as bad as most "In Pop Culture" sections which I have been known to delete in one edit and emit maniacal laughter while doing so. Dave (talk) 15:03, 25 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

New Logo[edit]

The Utah Department of Transportation has an updated logo and I'm hoping someone wouldn't mind updating it on the wikipedia page. I work in the UDOT Communications Office and understand it wouldn't be appropriate for me to do so. The logo was updated in November 2010 and can be downloaded from the Department's website at http://www.udot.utah.gov/main/f?p=100:pg:0:::1:T,V:558, (Beckypee (talk) 17:57, 7 August 2013 (UTC))[reply]

And I've added the new logo to the article. Thanks for the heads up. Imzadi 1979 → 21:19, 7 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]