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Bangerter Highway

State Route 154 marker

State Route 154
Bangerter Highway
Route information
Defined by Utah Code §72-4-121
Maintained by UDOT
Length: 24.319 mi (39.138 km)
Existed: 1989 – present
Major junctions
South end: I-15 and Bangerter Parkway in Draper
  SR-68 in Bluffdale/Riverton
SR-71 in Riverton
SR-175 in South Jordan
SR-48 in West Jordan
SR-173 in Taylorsville
SR-171 in West Valley City
SR-201 in West Valley City
I-80 in Salt Lake City
North end: Airport Sign.svg Salt Lake City International Airport
Highway system
  • State highways in Utah
SR-153 SR-155

State Route 154 marker

State Route 154 (SR-154) or Bangerter Highway (named after former Utah Governor Norman H. Bangerter) is a partial expressway running west and then north from Draper through western Salt Lake County, eventually reaching the Salt Lake City International Airport in Salt Lake City. Construction began in 1988 after planning for the highway began more than two decades prior. For the next ten years, portions of the highway opened as constructed, with the entire route finished by 1998.

Original plans for the six-lane expressway running through the western suburbs of Salt Lake City placed Bangerter Highway running further north past the Salt Lake City International Airport into Davis County. However, any route north of the airport never reached fruition, whereas the original southerly end of the route was extended from Redwood Road to I-15.

State Route 154 (Bangerter Highway) begins just southeast of a single-point urban interchange at I-15 at the intersection of 13800 South in the Salt Lake City suburb of Draper. The three-lane road curves from the north to the west and widens to four lanes before accessing the I-15 interchange. Past the freeway exit, SR-154 expands to three lanes in each direction with a median barrier in the center. With the exception of two variations in the course of the road prior to an intersection at Redwood Road (SR-68), the highway heads relatively due west (there is a dip to the south for about a mile as the roadway crosses the Jordan River). Throughout its whole route, with four exceptions (I-15, SR-68, SR-48, SR-201, and I-80), SR-154 intersects only major cross streets at grade-level intersections. The route runs into the boundary of Bluffdale and Riverton before definitively entering Riverton boundaries when the highway makes a northerly curve.


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