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TAYLORSVILLE — Drivers on Bangerter Highway should brace for further delays near 6200 South this weekend as crews prepare for construction of a freeway-style interchange at the intersection.
Bangerter will be reduced to one northbound lane and two southbound lanes near 6200 South beginning at 9 p.m. Friday and ending Monday, Nov. 25, at 5 a.m., weather permitting. According to a news release from the Utah Department of Transportation, crews will finish relocating a water line underneath the intersection.
UDOT began the process during lane closures last weekend. Work on the interchange is scheduled to begin in 2020.
UDOT spokesman John Gleason said the water line relocation is a “really important project.”
“It’s the water line that supplies the majority of the Salt Lake Valley,” Gleason explained. “So in advance of this big construction project next year, we have to move that water line.”
“When you’re looking at these projects, there’s always so much that goes into them that, if you’re just looking at it from the 30,000-foot level, you wouldn’t see everything that goes in,” Gleason said. “There’s a lot of partners that make that possible, and a lot of our engineers and staff just dedicate a lot of time and energy to making sure everything’s exactly right.”
He said UDOT is building three freeway-style interchanges on Bangerter Highway in 2020 like past projects at 5400, 7000, 9000 and 11400 South.
Gleason recommends that drivers avoid the area this weekend in anticipation of “fairly extensive” delays, especially northbound. “There could be a pretty good bottleneck right there” with only one northbound lane open, Gleason said. “And so we’re just asking people to use an alternate route.”
Elsewhere, northbound I-15 will be reduced to four lanes in Lehi beginning at 8 a.m. on Saturday. The lane closure will allow concrete to cure for a new bridge over Lehi’s Main Street.
Gleason said UDOT does not anticipate significant delays during this lane reduction. “It’s going to open up again in time for the morning commute on Monday,” he said.
He asked drivers to use caution as they move through the Technology Corridor at a reduced speed limit of 60 mph.
