Utah State Route 154

The Utah State Route 154 (SR -154 ) or Bangerter Highway ( named after the former governor of Utah Norman H. Bangerter ) a substantially same height running highway in Salt Lake City, the Draper (Utah ) west and to the north by the Western part of the Salt Lake County to the airport " Salt Lake City International airport " runs.

After over twenty years of planning followed in 1988 and the start of construction to 1998 CLEARED in stages. The track is expanded outweigh six lanes and mostly performed in separate carriageways.

The original plans called for a course before through the western suburbs of Salt Lake City, the north of the Salt Lake City International Airport should lead into the Davis County Bangerter Highway. The measures provided for routes north of the airport were ripe plan at any time, while the original southern end was extended from the Redwood Road to Interstate 15.

History

The 1933-1969 as Utah State Route 154 designated route was 80 miles north and went to the north of the state of Utah by Garland in Tremonton and ended north of Collinston seven miles away. At that time it was the combination of the designated 1927-1962 Utah State Route 41, now Utah State Route 82 and the former Utah State Route 69, a part of today's Utah State Route 30

In the 1960s, the plans for a " West Valley Highway" started as a project financed with federal subsidies project. They described largely present route of the curve between the Utah State Route 68 and 15300 South north to Interstate 80 west and led to the then " Salt Lake City Municipal Airport no. 1 ", now the airport " Salt Lake City International Airport ", the curve of the 4000 West eastwards following, the 2200 North and Interstate 215 ending.

In 1989, proposed the " Utah Transportation Commission ," an independent Transport Committee, before the " West Valley Highway" to carry on as " State Route 154 " and the then-new design of a corridor Interstate 15 in western direction with the 13400 South at the level 3200 West to join, as well as the old design, north to connect Interstate 80 to implement.

On the initiative of Governor Norman H. Bangerter, a longtime resident of West Valley City, the funds for the project from the general budget of the state were granted. Then the section between the 2100 South (Utah State Route 201) and the 3500 South was (Utah State Route 171 ) was opened on 26 November 1991, after which the transport committee proposed in May 1993, to designate the route to Bangerter. The last section of Interstate 15 was opened to traffic on 17 November 1998.

Traffic Flow Optimization

In 2007, the intersection of 3500 South (Utah State Route 171 ) was used for continuous-flow rebuilt Intersection, because it was used on weekdays up to 100,000 vehicles. By 2012, six other intersections were converted to 7000 South (Utah State Route 48) in this way, eliminating preventable traffic conflicts. The connection point to the 2100 South Freeway (Utah State Route 201), a pound was expanded to Diverging Diamond Interchange.

Yield curve

The entire route is located in Salt Lake County, within the urban areas of Draper Bluffdale, Riverton, South Jordan, West Jordan, Taylorsville, West Valley City and Salt Lake City