Legacy Parkway to get into gear soon
The Utah Department of Transportation on Tuesday announced a construction schedule and contractors that will likely build the 14-mile parkway, planned to run from North Salt Lake to Farmington. Contracts will be finalized over the next week, and work on the road is planned to begin next Tuesday, UDOT said.
The agency aims to have Legacy open to the public by Sept. 30, 2008.
"Today was the last major hurdle for the Legacy Parkway," project manager John Thomas said Tuesday. "We've rounded the last corner, and in the last 23 months, we'll begin the final sprint to be able to open in the fall of 2008."
Work on Legacy will be done in three segments. UDOT has yet to officially award contracts to the contractors, but Thomas said Tuesday that the agency will "very likely" award contracts to the following companies: Ames & Wadsworth Contractors, Ames Contractors and Clyde-Geneva Constructors.
All are local companies that UDOT has worked with before, Thomas said. The companies were selected based on low bids and will work together using materials and designs that UDOT has specified through engineering work done the past year.
The first segment of Legacy runs from the I-215 interchange in North Salt Lake to 500 South in Bountiful. It will be built by Ames & Wadsworth Contractors for $95.6 million.
The second segment runs from 500 South to Glovers Lane in Farmington. It will be built by Ames Contractors for $80.5 million. Ames is the same company working with Wadsworth on the first segment. The last segment runs to the Park Lane interchange in Farmington and will be built by Clyde-Geneva for $99.7 million.
Thomas said that the contractors will be required to have monitors out on the Legacy construction site to ensure that the road is built in a way that's sensitive to the environment. Those monitors will check to see that erosion controls are in place and that animals and habitat are protected.
Construction is expected to impact local traffic in Davis County, but the disruption won't be as substantial as a project on an existing highway, according to UDOT. Minimal lane restrictions may happen at the highway's connection points on I-215 and I-15, but most of the impacts will be from trucks hauling dirt and other materials to the construction site.
Information and updates about construction are available at: www.udot.utah.gov/legacy.
Thomas said he anticipates that Legacy, in addition to the Utah Transit Authority's new commuter-rail line, will be a boon to traffic in Davis County. Commuter rail will run from Pleasant View in Weber County to Salt Lake City and is anticipated to be done in late 2007 or early 2008.
"The real bottom line is that in 23 months, travel in Davis County will be transformed," Thomas said.
E-mail: nwarburton@desnews.com
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