UDOT highlights $tens of millions in Region 4 projects, stresses wildlife-crossing safety gains

Kanab, Utah — Utah Department of Transportation Region 4 staff gave the Utah Transportation Commission a regional update Wednesday detailing roughly a decade of investment in Kane and neighboring counties and previewing several current projects, including a wildlife-crossing package the department says produced measurable crash reductions in an earlier phase.

UDOT Region 4 program manager Cameron Gage said the department has delivered dozens of projects in Kane and Garfield counties over the past 10 years, ranging from corridor widenings and structure repairs to trails and pavement preservation. "In Kane County, just shy of $124,000,000 and 40 projects have been completed in the last 10 years," Gage said, and he gave comparable totals for surrounding counties and recent multi‑year spending that the region is managing.

Gage described several recent and ongoing projects the commission saw on a prior-day tour. Those included US‑89 passing lanes at Buckskin Wash (a TIF-funded project he said cost about $7.2 million) and a…