After 3 decades spent in the sunny (and humid) South Florida media world, Jeff has traveled to across the country to partake in the delights of The Beehive State.
Everything old is new again, at least on one of the major highways in northern Utah.As part of the years-long project to make Bangerter Highway an actual highway by converting intersections to interchanges, crews are using parts of the old road to make the new road.
The concrete was broken up by heavy machinery at 4700 South and crushed into tiny pieces, creating enough recyclable material to fill two Goodyear blimps, according to UDOT.Instead of being hauled away, the old concrete was recycled where it was originally located, and then reprocessed as road base for the new interchange.“We are taking the old Bangerter Highway, crushing it up and making it into a product to put into the new Bangerter Highway,” said contractor project manager Jake Nielson.
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