A renewed proposal to realign and pave a remote road out of the Uinta Basin could result in a busy oil tanker thoroughfare through Nine Mile Canyon, Utah’s famed rock art destination.
to promote projects, such as the proposed Uinta Basin Railway, to move eastern Utah’s mineral production to market.
“What it’s going to take for rock art to get the recognition and protection that it deserves from locals and from the state is for it to become an economic generator,” said Miller, a co-founder of the. “Once local folks can see that rock art is generating taxes and all that kind of stuff, then it’ll become important. And that’s what’s happening in Nine Mile.”
“Nine Mile still one of those places where you have to be careful when you drive through. You round the corner and there will be a sedan with all four doors open, people are out of the car looking at the cliffs,” Miller said. “You know how fast those oil guys can drive. And you don’t stop one of those loaded oil tankers very soon.”
“Some sections of the roadway are located in relatively flat regions and the required widths are narrower,” the proposal states. “However, much of the roadway is located in a canyon, which requires larger cuts and fills, and therefore a wider right-of-way is required to meet safety standards.”
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