The Utah Department of Transportation has announced its summer road construction priorities, and the top 10 projects alone add up to $2.1 billion. The list includes a couple of new roads, but in most cases it's widening existing roads and replacing bridges and exits on freeways. All pretty practical stuff.
UDOT’s deputy director acknowledged the work will be a burden for drivers, “but without construction and improvements, we eventually get bogged down and we become California — and we have those traffic jams that none of us like to be stuck in.”
With all due respect, that is the classic attitude that produces sprawl.