The majority of work will be in planter strips and on the shoulders of the roads. There may be lane closures, but I wouldn't suspect there would be any road closures.

The contractor will notify adjacent neighbors what is happening so they can be up to speed. If it's necessary to disrupt service at any traffic signal, that work will be reserved for low-traffic times of day or for weekends or nights.

One of biggest problems, not just in Provo but nationwide, in any city's ability to coordinate a corridor is getting real-time data. Because of the lack of data, timing coordination might be based on traffic counts done six months ago, a year ago or three years ago.

Interstates and parkways ... we recommended going to 70, and some of the four-lane non-interstate, non-parkway roads we recommended going to 60 miles per hour from 55. Many of the rural interstates are now six lanes and not four lanes like they were at that time, which, in my opinion, makes them even safer.

In our defense, he's got contain a majority of the time. He hasn't missed many assignments.

Farmers are on the roads because they are trying to get to their place of work, just as motorists are trying to get to their place of employment. The days of a farm family just working on their homestead acres are long gone. Some farmers must travel many miles to get to their fields.