SALT LAKE CITY ( ABC4 ) — Lane closures are slated to begin this weekend in Taylorsville as UDOT starts to ramp up construction on the latest Bangerter Highway interchange conversion.
This marks the latest step in UDOT’s decade-long effort to free up traffic on the highway by removing stop lights from intersections and replacing them with freeway-style interchanges.
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So far, 10 intersections have been converted between 5400 South and 600 West. As of now, four intersections are under construction.
“At the completion of construction, motorists will have free flow of traffic all the way from about 4100 South to I-15 … It’ll all be freeway-style, nonstop,” Marawan Farah, UDOT’s Bangerter Highway project director, told ABC4 last week.
“It’s really an exciting project for us.”
Weekend construction
Starting at 10 p.m. Friday, all east-west traffic on 4700 South will be detoured as crews install bridge supports for on- and off-ramps, UDOT said in a news release. The roadway will reopen early Monday morning ahead of rush hour.
Another closure at the same intersection is expected the following weekend, starting at 10 p.m. on Feb. 23 and lasting through the morning of Feb. 26.
UDOT said drivers should expect delays and use either 4100 South or 5400 South as alternative routes both weekends.