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This fall, orange construction cones will line 1300 East, signaling the start of Sandy City's most expensive road project ever. This morning, Sandy officials announced a $30 million project to improve the road.
Sandy mayor Tom Dolan said, "It will be a beautiful road. People will enjoy it, and we won't have the traffic backups we're seeing now."
Sandy City and the Utah Department of Transportation plan to start the 1300 East corridor project this fall. It will run from 7800 South to 10600 South.
Dolan, alongside Congressman Jim Matheson, announced that this is the largest road improvement project Sandy has ever had. It is estimated to cost between $28 million and $30 million. Six million of that is coming from Sandy City; the rest has been acquired through federal funding.
"This is a major transportation corridor here along 13th East, and while this specific project goes from border to border, it's going to benefit people throughout this valley to have this corridor updated, and it will be a much nicer resource for all of us to have," Matheson said.
The corridor is one of the city's busiest roads, with approximately 45,000 vehicles on it per day.
"We believe that when all the projects we're working on throughout Sandy are done, in the next three or four years, we will have the finest transportation system of anyone in the valley," Dolan said.
This project will widen and improve key roads and intersections, add bike lanes, update sidewalk ramps to ADA standards and add decorative walls, medians and landscaping along the entire length of the project.
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