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(Press Release)OGDEN -- The Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT) advises motorists that the extension of Hinckley Drive between Roy and West Haven, also known as state Road 79, was opened to traffic on Monday morning, August 16, 2010.
With this opening, work on the $20.7 million project to extend Hinckley Drive (State Road 79) nearly a mile from its present terminus at 1900 West (SR-126) to a new connection at 3600 South Midland Drive (SR-108), is considered substantially complete. Over the rest of this month, crews will complete "punch list" items and shoulder work on the new alignment, which provides increased mobility and connectivity for motorists in western Weber county with the Interstate 15/Interstate 84 corridor.
While the Hinckley Drive extension is now open to traffic, there may occasionally be lane closures in order to complete remaining tasks. Motorists are encouraged to observe posted speed limits, watch for closed or restricted lanes ahead, and be watchful for workers or equipment operation adjacent to open lanes of traffic.
The project to extend Hinckley Drive (SR-79) has been in UDOT's plans since 2001, when a federal Environmental Assessment (EA) was planned and conducted to obtain public input. That original assessment was completed in 2002. Since then, UDOT conducted a supplemental EA to determine the potential impacts of improvements made to the design of the preferred alignment, and held additional public meetings to obtain public input on the proposed changes in 2008. Upon approval of the supplemental EA by the Federal Highway Administration, construction on the extension began in the Fall of 2009, over eight years after the project was first proposed.
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