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UDOT district engineer Alex Fisher Willis highlights maintenance crews, career path and fellowship experience

Utah Department of Transportation · March 4, 2026
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Alex Fisher Willis, a district engineer at the Utah Department of Transportation, described overseeing maintenance for Salt Lake and Tooele counties, praised front-line crews (including Cottonwood Canyons and the Avalanche crew) as central to road safety, and recounted career steps including an AASHTO fellowship in April 2017.

Alex Fisher Willis, a district engineer with the Utah Department of Transportation, said he oversees most of Salt Lake County and all of Tooele County and manages crews responsible for snow plowing, pothole repairs, litter pickup and operations in the Cottonwood Canyons including the Avalanche crew.

Willis said maintenance field crews are “the most important part of UDOT, period,” adding, “They they work their butts off” and that those crews keep…

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