Country Route 154 or Bangerter Highway (named after former Utah Gov. Norman H. Bangerter) is a partial toll road running to west and then north of Draper via west Salt Lake County, finally reaching Salt Lake City International Airport in Salt Lake City. Construction began in 1988 after planning for highways began more than two decades earlier. Over the next ten years, most highways were opened as constructed, with the entire route completed in 1998.
The original plan for a six-lane highway running through the western outskirts of Salt Lake City puts Bangerter Highway further north through Salt Lake City International Airport to Davis County. However, any route north of the airport never reaches results, while the southern south end of the route is extended from Redwood Road to I-15.
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Route description
State Route 154 (Bangerter Highway) begins just southeast of the single point urban crossroads at I-15 at the intersection of 13800 South in the suburb of Salt Lake City Draper. The lane runs three lanes from north to west and extends into four lanes before accessing the I-15 intersection. Passing through the expressway exit, SR-154 extends to three lanes in each direction with a median barrier in the center. With the exception of two variations on the road journey before an intersection at Redwood Road (SR-68), the highway leads relatively westward (there is a slope to the south about a mile as the road crosses the Jordan River). Throughout the entire route, with four exceptions (I-15, SR-68, SR-48, SR-201, and I-80), the SR-154 simply cuts the main streets at the grade level intersection. The route runs to the Bluffdale and Riverton borders before definitively entering the Riverton boundary when the highway makes the northern curve.
Making a light jog in the east in the process, the road maintains the six-lane section of the divided highway as it cuts 13400 South, South 12600 (SR-71) and 11400 South (SR-175 and access road to Daybreak and Mount Oquirrh LDS Temple). Arriving at South Jordan, more crossroads cut off the Bangerter Highway (South Jordan Parkway SR-151, 9800 South and 9000 South) before the route crosses into West Jordan. There is no in-class intersection at 7800 South SR-48, but a flyover with on-and off-ramp, allowing easy access to the South Valley Regional Airport and allowing uninterrupted flow of traffic in Bangerter. SR-154 continues, cutting 7000 South (access to Jordan Landing) and Bennion Boulevard (6200 South). The route slid westward, entering Taylorsville and across 5400 South (SR-173) and 4700 South.
When the SR-154 enters West Valley City, it cuts 4100 South, 3500 South (SR-171), and 3100 South. The road curves northwest, intersecting Parkway Boulevard (2700 South), Lake Park Boulevard (2400 South), and 2100 South before meeting SR-201 (21st South Freeway) at a different diamond intersection and entering Salt Lake City. Losing one lane in each direction, north meander route towards Airport, crossing 1820 South and California Avenue (1300 South) before meeting at the clover crossing at I-80 and stopping on the access road to the Airport.
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History
Planning for the West Valley Highway began in the 1960s as a local federal aid project. The proposed alignment begins at a curve at SR-68 near 15300 South and continues north-north and north, following a path very similar to current alignment to I-80. It continues north along what is then the western boundary of Salt Lake City Municipal Airport no. 1 (now Salt Lake City International Airport) to 4000 West, curving east to 2200 North and ending at I-215. A drainage canal was moved to make room for a loop from 2200 North to north of I-215, but when Interstate finished south of North 2200 (where it had ended for years) in the mid-1980s, diamond intersections were built instead. Then the northern segment is diverted to continue north-northeast from the airport to Davis County; this section is now the Legacy Parkway. Salt Lake County was able to build a highway between SR-201 (2100 South) and I-80 with federal funding, but it took the country to solve it.
In 1989, the Utah Transportation Commission added part of the proposed West Valley Highway to the state highway system as State Route 154. A proposed new corridor drove west from I-15 near 13400 South to near 3200 West, where it joined with older proposals. and head north to I-80. With the help of Gov. Norman H. Bangerter, a longtime resident of West Valley City, the project received the necessary money from the state general fund, and opened between SR-201 (2100 South) and SR-171 (3500 South) on November 26, 1991. The Transportation Commission changed the name of the highway after Bangerter in May 1993. It was finally completed to I-15 on November 17, 1998.
In 2007, a continuous flow junction was built at the junction of the SR-154 and SR-171 (3500 South), one of the very few intersections as in the United States. The intersection is one of the busiest in the state and handles 100,000 vehicles on a typical business day. Over the next five years six more intersections are modified into continuous crossroads. In 2012 the first intersection (one junction point of the city) was completed at a non-express highway intersection in 7800 South (SR-48).
Future
UDOT (Utah Dept of Transportation) is in the process of reconstructing several Intersections Into the interregional standards exchange and reconstruction of the in-class crossing..
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The entire route is in Salt Lake County.
References
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