Legacy Highway

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Legacy Highway is a freeway in the U.S. state of Utah that is planned to run from Brigham City in the north down the western side of the Wasatch Front to Nephi in the south. It was proposed in 1996 by then-Utah Governor Michael O. Leavitt. Because of delays and the length of the freeway, it may be 2025 or later until construction on the entire portion is finished, although officials have stated that the complete proposal may, in fact, never be finished.^{[citation needed]}

1 Legacy Parkway
2 Mountain View Corridor
- 2.1 Toll road?
3 References
4 External links
- 4.1 Legacy Highway and Parkway
- 4.2 Anti-Highway Viewpoints

[edit] Legacy Parkway

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The first portion to be built will be the Legacy Parkway, or South Davis Segment, which will run from the junction of U.S. 89 in Farmington to Interstate 215 in northern Salt Lake City. Construction on the Legacy Parkway began in 2004 after many delays. The interchange with Interstate 15 and U.S. 89 was mostly completed before the highway was delayed again as a result of lawsuits over the completeness of the environmental impact statement.

On September 21, 2005, the State of Utah and the Sierra Club (acting on behalf of numerous groups opposing the Legacy Highway) officially signed a compromise regarding the Legacy Highway. Some of the agreements reached include no billboards along the freeway, no trucks allowed on the freeway (excepting cases where they are used in response to an accident or there is construction on I-15), and a 55 mph (90 km/h) speed limit. This is in exchange for the promise that the environmentalists will stop obstructing the construction of the highway. These restrictions hold until 2020. Construction on this segment of the freeway began again in spring 2006.

[edit] Mountain View Corridor

Another portion of the Legacy Highway is the Mountain View Corridor, ^[1] which is planned to span the entire length of western Salt Lake County and northwestern Utah County. Construction on this corridor is expected to begin no earlier than 2007.

[edit] Toll road?

The Utah Legislature has considered whether or not to make this portion of the Legacy Highway a toll road so that it will be funded for construction sooner. If so, the land would be acquired by the state government and the construction would be funded by a private company. The revenue would be shared between the state and the private company. It has been stated that if the road is not built as a toll road that they don't know when money could be found for the project, but that if the road is constructed as a toll road that construction could begin as early as 2009.