Utah State Route 154
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| Bangerter Highway | ||||
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| Defined by Utah Code §72-4-121 | ||||
| Maintained by UDOT | ||||
| Length: | 24.319 mi[1] (39.138 km) | |||
| Existed: | 1989 – present | |||
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| South end: |  I-15 in Draper |
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 SR-201 in West Valley City I-80 in Salt Lake City |
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| North end: |  Salt Lake City International Airport |
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State highways in Utah
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→State Route 154 (SR-154) or Bangerter Highway (named after former Utah Governor Norman H. Bangerter) is an expressway running west and north from Draper through western Salt Lake County, eventually reaching the Salt Lake City International Airport in Salt Lake City. Construction began in 1988 after planning for the highway began more than two decades prior. For the next ten years, portions of the highway opened as constructed, with the entire route finished by 1998.
Original plans for the six-lane expressway running through the western suburbs of Salt Lake City placed Bangerter Highway running further north past the Salt Lake City International Airport into Davis County. However, any route north of the airport never reached fruition, whereas the original southerly end of the route was extended from Redwood Road to I-15.
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[edit] Route description
State Route 154 (Bangerter Highway) begins just southeast of a single-point urban interchange at I-15 at the intersection of 13800 South in the Salt Lake City suburb of Draper. The three-lane road curves from the north to the west to access the I-15 interchange. Past the freeway exit, SR-154 expands to three lanes in each direction with a median barrier in the center — with the exception of two variations in the course of the road prior to an intersection at Redwood Road (SR-68), the highway heads relatively due west. Throughout its whole route, SR-154 intersects only major cross streets at grade-level intersections. The route runs into the boundary of Bluffdale and Riverton before definitively entering Riverton boundaries when the highway makes a northerly curve.
Making a slight easterly jog in the process, the road maintains its six-lane divided-highway setup as it intersects 13400 South, 12600 South (SR-71) and 11400 South (SR-175, the access road to Daybreak and the Oquirrh Mountain LDS Temple). Arriving in South Jordan, more cross streets intersect Bangerter Highway (South Jordan Parkway [SR-151], 9800 South and 9000 South) before the route traverses into West Jordan. More intersections are offered at 7800 South (SR-48, access to South Valley Regional Airport), 7000 South (access to Jordan Landing) and Bennion Boulevard. The route slides to the west, entering Taylorsville and crossing 5400 South (SR-173) and 4700 South. Now into West Valley City, 4100 South and 3500 South (a continuous flow intersection at SR-171) are afforded access to Bangerter Highway. The highway enters the jurisdiction of Salt Lake City past 3100 South and curves northwest, intersecting with Parkway and Lake Park Boulevards before meeting SR-201 at a diamond interchange. Losing one lane in each direction, the route meanders northerly toward the Airport, crossing 1820 South and California Avenue before meeting at a cloverleaf interchange at I-80 and terminating at the access road to the Airport.[2]
[edit] History
Planning for the West Valley Highway began in the 1960s[3] as a local federal-aid project. The proposed alignment began at the curve in SR-68 near 15300 South and proceeded north-northwesterly and northerly, following a path much like the present alignment to I-80. It continued north along what was then the west boundary of the Salt Lake City Municipal Airport No. 1 (now Salt Lake City International) into 4000 West, curving east onto 2200 North and ending at I-215. A drainage canal was moved to make room for a loop from 2200 North onto northbound I-215,[4] but when the Interstate was finished south of 2200 North (where it had ended for many years) in the mid-1980s,[5] a diamond interchange was built instead.[6] Later the north segment was rerouted to continue north-northeasterly from the airport into Davis County;[7] parts of this are now the Legacy Parkway. Salt Lake County was able to build the highway between SR-201 (2100 South) and I-80 with federal funding, but it took the state to finish it.[3]
In 1989, the Utah Transportation Commission added a portion of the proposed West Valley Highway to the state highway system as State Route 154. A newly-proposed corridor ran west from I-15 near 13400 South to near 3200 West, where it joined the older proposal and headed north to I-80.[8] With the help of Governor Norman H. Bangerter, longtime resident of West Valley City, the project received needed money from the state's general fund, and was opened between SR-201 (2100 South) and SR-171 (3500 South) on November 26, 1991.[3] The Transportation Commission renamed the highway after Bangerter in May 1993.[8] It was finally completed to I-15 on November 17, 1998.[9]
In 2007, a continuous flow intersection was constructed at the junction of SR-154 and SR-171 (3500 South), one of a very few such intersections in the United States. The intersection is one of the busiest in the state and handles 100,000 vehicles on a typical weekday.[10]
[edit] Major intersections
The entire route is in Salt Lake County.
| Location | Mile[11] | Destinations | Notes |
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| Draper | 0.000 | 13800 South, Bangerter Parkway | |
| 0.209 | 150 East | ||
| 0.467 | I-15 – Provo, Salt Lake |
Interchange | |
| 0.798 | 200 West | ||
| Riverton, Bluffdale |
3.242 |  SR-68 (Redwood Road) |
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| 4.244 | 2700 West | ||
| Riverton | 5.751 | 13400 South | |
| 6.759 |  SR-71 (12600 South) |
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| South Jordan | 8.274 |  SR-175 (11400 South) |
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| 9.600 | 10400 South | ||
| 10.384 | 9800 South | ||
| West Jordan | 11.390 | 9000 South | |
| 12.884 |  SR-48 (7800 South) |
Interchange planned | |
| 13.885 | 7000 South | Continuous flow intersection | |
| Taylorsville | 14.893 | 6200 South | Continuous flow intersection planned |
| 15.930 |  SR-173 (5400 South) |
Continuous flow intersection | |
| 16.939 | 4700 South | Continuous flow intersection | |
| West Valley City | |||
| 17.936 | 4100 South | Continuous flow intersection | |
| 18.946 |  SR-171 (3500 South) |
Continuous flow intersection | |
| 19.455 | 3100 South | Continuous flow intersection | |
| 19.991 | Parkway Boulevard | ||
| 20.513 | 2400 South | ||
| 20.839 | Frontage Road | ||
| 21.013 | SR-201 (2100 South Freeway) – Magna, Salt Lake City |
Diverging diamond interchange | |
| Salt Lake City | |||
| 21.388 | 1820 South | ||
| 22.267 | California Avenue | ||
| 23.708 | I-80 / North Temple Street – Salt Lake City Center, Ogden, Provo, Cheyenne, Reno |
Interchange; former SR-186 | |
| 24.319 | Salt Lake City International Airport | Continuation beyond I-80 |
[edit] References
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Utah State Route 154 |
- ^ "State Route 154 Highway reference". Utah Department of Transportation. http://www.dot.utah.gov/main/uconowner.gf?n=15534725385738550.
- ^ "Google Maps; overview of SR-154". Google. http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=150+E+13800+South+Draper&daddr=40.549287,-111.978149+to:Salt+Lake+City+International+Airport,+Salt+Lake+City,+Salt+Lake,+Utah+84116&hl=en&geocode=FRvxaQId9rxU-SnFb8YDzIBShzF1HvM0CKGrNQ%3B%3BFbxWbgIdf09T-SkB5tfc3fNShzHF1P7l83Jygw&mra=dpe&mrcr=0&mrsp=1&sz=11&via=1&sll=40.560765,-111.877899&sspn=0.288475,0.617294&ie=UTF8&ll=40.642094,-111.839447&spn=0.576245,1.234589&z=10.
- ^ a b c Deseret News, W.V. Highway Now a Reality After Traveling a Rocky Road, November 27, 1991
- ^ Utah Department of Transportation, Highway Resolutions: Route 215PDF (9.62 MB), updated November 2007, accessed May 2008, pp. 9, 11, 14
- ^ Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory database, 2006
- ^ Google, Inc. Google Maps – Google Maps 2100 North interchange (Map). Cartography by Google, Inc. http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=Interstate+215,+Salt+Lake+City,+Utah&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=34.671324,83.320312&ie=UTF8&cd=3&geocode=FZqibQIdm8lT-Q&ll=40.812746,-111.950244&spn=0.004044,0.013733&z=17. Retrieved June 8, 2009.
- ^ Utah Department of Transportation, Highway Resolutions: Route 172PDF (838 KB), updated November 2007, accessed May 2008, p. 5
- ^ a b Utah Department of Transportation, Highway Resolutions: Route 154PDF (2.18 MB), updated November 2007, accessed May 2008, p. 14
- ^ John Keahey, Salt Lake Tribune, Bangerter's Last Section Opens Today; Multilane highway extends from S.L. airport to Draper, November 17, 1998, p. B1
- ^ "Continuous Flow Intersection to be Built on Bangerter Hwy". KSL-TV. http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=963706. Retrieved 13 April 2008.
- ^ Utah Department of Transportation, Highway Reference Information: SR-154PDF (20.7 KB), updated May 2008, accessed July 2008
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