Legacy Highway

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This article contains information about a planned or expected future road.
It may contain information of a speculative nature and the content may change as the road's construction or completion approaches and more information becomes available.

For the road currently being constructed, see Legacy Parkway

1 Legacy Highway
2 References
3 External links
- 3.1 Legacy Highway and Parkway
- 3.2 Anti-Highway Viewpoints

[edit] Legacy Highway

The Legacy Highway is a proposed 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]}

[edit] Legacy Parkway

Main article: Legacy Parkway

The first portion to be built will be the Legacy Parkway, or South Davis Segment, which will run from Farmington to North Salt Lake, Utah. 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. Construction began again in 2006 and completion is scheduled for Fall 2008.^[1]

[edit] Mountain View Corridor

Another portion of the Legacy Highway is the Mountain View Corridor,^[2] 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.^{[citation needed]}

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 if the road is constructed as a toll road that construction could begin as early as 2009.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Legacy North

Is a planned highway to run north from Farmington, Highway 89 and 1-15 interchange. Head north through the west end of Weber county. The work on this part of the highway will go on from the Legacy Parkway in Farmington.^{[citation needed]}