Utah State Route 85
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| Basic data | |
| Overall length: | 35 mi = 56.4 km |
| Opening: | 2010 |
| Starting point: |
 SR-201 (planned I-80 ) in Salt Lake City |
| End point: |
 SR-73 in Saratoga Springsand I-15 in Lehi 
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| Counties: |
Salt Lake County Utah County |
| Important cities: |
Bluffdale , Herriman , Lehi , Riverton , Salt Lake City , South Jordan , West Valley City |
The Mountain View Corridor is a road under development in the north of the US state of Utah . It runs along the western periphery of Salt Lake County and from south to northwest Utah County . Mountain View Corridor and Utah State Route 85 (SR-85) run together except for their last four miles at the southern ends . The Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT) is responsible for the entire Mountain View Corridor .
history
Before construction of the Mountain View Corridor began in 2010, other roads were designated "Utah State Route 85". From 1960 to 1977, the former number 85 was that of a state highway from southeast Box Elder County , near Interstate 15, northeast at Brigham City to the state line in front of Franklin . Previously, the number 85 carried a highway in the southern half of Box Elder County between 1945 and 1953, which led from the then SR ‑ 41 , today's SR ‑ 13 , to the then SR ‑ 154 in Riverside.
course
The Mountain View Corridor is a one to two mile parallel arterial road west of the Bangerter Highway (SR-154), built to meet the needs of the growing cities of Salt Lake County . It begins on SR-73 in Saratoga Springs and runs north as SR-85 to the junction with 2100 North, which leads east to Interstate 15 and Lehi .
From the intersection of 2100 North, the Mountain View Corridor will continue north through Camp Williams , Salt Lake County, west of Redwood Road ( SR-68 ). North of Camp Williams, it will lead northwest to Porter Rockwell Boulevard in Bluffdale . Porter Rockwell Boulevard will become a non- autobahn-like feeder road to the Mountain View Corridor to the east to connect Redwood Road (SR-68) approximately at 16000 South. For the time being, this will be the southernmost connection of the Mountain View Corridor until further sections in the south are completed.
From Porter Rockwell Boulevard it will continue northwest to 13400 South at about 4800 West in Riverton and further north to 12600 South. From 12600 South it will again run northwest and cross the Daybreak Parkway at around 11700 South. Daybreak - cross a district of South Jordan on the Old Bingham Highway, around 10200 South in West Jordan and continue northeast to 9000 South, immediately west of 5400 West.
From 9000 South it leads north, over 8200 South, to 7800 South, where it turns northwest to 7000 South at 6400 West. From 7000 South head north on 6200 South to 5400 South ( SR-173 ). From 5400 South he will turn northeast again, to 4100 South, where he will reach West Valley City and approximately at 5700 West and north again to 3500 South ( SR-171 ) and on to the intersection with SR-201 .
From SR-201, it will continue north to California Avenue in Salt Lake City and northwest again before connecting to Interstate 80 Salt Lake City International Airport, near 6100 West in Salt Lake City, a few miles west of the airport Salt Lake City International Airport leads.
expansion
planning
In the middle of 2010, planners in Utah County discussed the prospect of a westerly highway-like road in Utah County between Lehi and Santaquin , along SR-68 and Utah Lake . It was suggested that this would become part of the Mountain View Corridor project.
The plans envisage the expansion in three stages. When it is finally completed, the motorway will have five lanes in each direction, including a high-occupancy toll lane (HOT) . Some sections will also include two-lane roads on either side of the highway.
Toll for understaffed vehicles in the fast lane
HOT lanes already exist in Utah and some other states in the United States. The condition of their use is not a minimum number of people in the vehicle, as is the case with HOV lanes , but rather the electronically charged toll must be paid and the toll accounting device operated in the vehicle, whereby fully occupied vehicles are excluded from the toll, but the toll opens up an option to use the reserved lane for single drivers for a fee and to make better use of the remaining lanes. In contrast, Express toll lanes (ETL) are generally subject to tolls.
Construction phase 1: For cost reasons, initially only outer alleys
In the first phase, for each section of the entire length of the Mountain View Corridor, either the parallel feeder roads ("outer alleys" or " Frontage Roads ") will be built as two separate one-way streets, but not all at once. The first construction phase will be completed in the various road sections, depending on the needs and funding. The two feeders of the motorway will be built first in each direction for these sections. At each future traffic junction, the lanes run up to the edges of the priority road in such a way that they will become the future ramps of the interchanges, creating two lateral crossings in the form of a split intersection . In these sections there are two one-way streets on either side of the planned road, which will later be the Frontage Roads . At each intersection that will be expanded in the future, the junction points into the road network will lead to the Texan model on Frontage Road, which will replace the junction's ramps and run parallel to and connect with the road. This turns the split intersections at the same level into motorway junctions in the form of a diamond .
Access roads running across the Mountain View Corridor are being built between the Old Bingham Highway and Porter Rockwell Boulevard and 2100 North. In the entire first construction phase, only the connected Frontage Roads of the planned road will be built.
Construction phase 2: expansion like in Texas
In the second construction phase, the actual road will only be built as soon as the need and financing are available. With the construction of the Frontage Roads, the space in the middle of the lanes will be reserved in the first construction phase in a way that is the first for Utah, on which the bridges with the feeders and the actual motorway routes will later be built. Even if they were built as planned, there would only be minimal disruptions to traffic during the second expansion phase.
Construction phase 3: More lanes and a toll road like in California
The third step is to expand the road from two to five lanes in each direction, with one of these lanes being reserved as a HOT lane - a HOV lane subject to tolls - which in turn will be built as required and financed.
Construction progress
The environmental impact statement for the motorway was drawn up in November 2008, the financing of the motorway remained the biggest obstacle. Previous proposals included increasing the state fuel tax or charging a new road toll in a public-private partnership, which was a very contentious issue. Ultimately, the Utah government decided to make the construction of the freeway dependent on future tax revenues. The first construction phase began in mid-2010 and was completed on December 15, 2012.
Construction of the feeder that leads along 2100 North into the Lehi road network and the eventual connection to Interstate 15 began at the end of 2010. This feeder, which initially only led to Redwood Road (SR-68), was opened on September 24, 2011 . In the second construction phase, this will be extended to the west.
In Herriman, two Frontage Roads were built between Rosecrest Drive and 12600 South and were opened to traffic on June 2, 2012. Another seven mile long Frontage Road is almost ready and is expected to open on October 13, 2012. These additional sections will be the drivable extension from Porter Rockwell Boulevard in Bluffdale north to the Old Bingham Highway in west Jordan. It is expected that another six kilometers of the road to the north will be completed by the end of 2012. By the end of 2012, a total of 15 miles of Frontage Roads, stretching from Porter Rockwell Boulevard in the north to 5400 South in West Valley City, as well as the associated bike and footpaths, will have been opened in the first construction phase. In 2016 the 5400 South (SR-173) was connected and construction continued in a northerly direction.
While the UDOT did not come up with a specific timetable for the rest of the project as a whole, it is expected to be fully completed by 2030.
Current expansion
The first construction phase of the Mountain View Corridor has been completed. The sections were built for traffic in two-lane separate carriageways with level and traffic light-regulated split intersections , which can be expanded later. The carriageway currently under construction extends from Redwood Road (SR-68) to 4100 South. The section between 5400 South and 4100 South opened at 3:00 p.m. on November 18, 2017 with a public ceremony and speech by the Mayor of West Valley City. The Mountain View Corridor is expected to be completed by SR-201 by 2021. When the connection to Interstate 80 will be ready is open.
List of connection points
The following table shows the connection points of the Mountain View Corridor when fully expanded.
| county | section | connection | Traffic node types and comments |
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| Utah County | Saratoga Springs |
SR-73
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South end of the Mountain View Corridor |
| Lehi | 2100 North | Feeder to the SR-68 and I-15 | |
| Salt Lake County | Bluffdale | Porter Rockwell Boulevard | In Frontage roads passing over Ramps |
| Herriman – Riverton line | Rosecrest Drive | Split intersection , later diamond , which leads to Frontage Roads | |
| Riverton | 13400 South | Split intersection, later diamond, which leads to Frontage Roads | |
| Herriman – Riverton line | 12600 South | Split intersection, later diamond, which leads to Frontage Roads | |
| Herriman – South Jordan line | 11800 South | Split intersection, later diamond, which leads to Frontage Roads | |
| South Jordan | Daybreak Parkway | Split intersection, later diamond, which leads to Frontage Roads | |
| South Jordan Pkwy | Split intersection, later diamond, which leads to Frontage Roads | ||
| West Jordan | Old Bingham Highway | Split intersection, later diamond, which leads to Frontage Roads | |
 SR-48 (9000S)
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Split intersection, later parallel ramps of a diamond | ||
| 7800 South | Split intersection, later diamond | ||
| West Valley City | 6200 South | Split intersection, later diamond | |
 SR-173 (5400S)
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Split intersection, later diamond | ||
| 4100 South | Split intersection, later diamond with an intersection (SPUI) | ||
 SR-171 (3500S)
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Split intersection, later SPUI | ||
| 2700 South | Half junction (diamond) to the south | ||
| West Valley City - Salt Lake City line |
SR-201 Freeway
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Motorway junction-like node that has multiple arms or where the areas of influence of nearby nodes are taken into account | |
| Salt Lake City | California Avenue | Split intersection, later SPUI | |
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I-80 freeway
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Planned motorway junction or motorway triangle- like node |
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ State Route 154 Highway reference. Utah Department of Transportation. Retrieved August 11, 2018 .
- ↑ State Routes in Region 2 . Utah Department of Transportation. Archived from the original on March 12, 2010. Retrieved March 11, 2010.
- ↑ Rodger L. Hardy: Utah County planners seek to avoid Lehi-like traffic woes. In: Deseret Morning News , May 11, 2010, accessed August 11, 2018.
- ^ Utah Department of Transportation: Mountain View Corridor Overview. Video on YouTube , February 6, 2018, accessed August 11, 2018.
- ↑ Catherine Smith: Lehi, UDOT compromise on corridor . In: Deseret Morning News , April 24, 2008. Retrieved August 11, 2018.
- ↑ Sam Scorup: Feds approve Mountain View Corridor . In: Daily Herald , November 18, 2008. Archived from the original on January 25, 2013.
- ^ Nicole Warburton: Foes of Mountain View toll road form group . In: Deseret Morning News , November 7, 2006. Retrieved August 11, 2018.
- ^ Huntsman signs state transportation project bills . In: Daily Herald , March 31, 2009. Archived from the original on January 26, 2013.
- ^ Salt Lake County construction project . Utah Department of Transportation. Archived from the original on September 28, 2011. Retrieved September 12, 2011.
- ↑ a b c MountainView Corridor Construction . Utah Department of Transportation. Archived from the original on March 11, 2010. Retrieved on December 27, 2012.
- ^ Construction on Mountain View Corridor finally underway . KSL. Archived from the original on March 13, 2010. Retrieved March 11, 2010.
- ↑ 2100 North: One-way gets you there better . Utah Department of Transportation. Archived from the original on November 26, 2011. Retrieved September 12, 2011.
- ↑ Google Earth and Street View, accessed March 2017
- ↑ UDOT completes 2.2-mile expansion of Mountain View Corridor . KSTU. Archived from the original on August 8, 2018. Retrieved November 19, 2017.