Joint Venture Completes UDOT’s Largest Project of Decade

Oak Hills Constructors — a joint venture between Sterling Construction’s subsidiary, Ralph L. Wadsworth, and Granite Construction — recently celebrated a milestone on a Utah Department of Transportation construction project.

The completion of the U.S. 89 reconstruction is UDOT’s largest project completed project in a decade, when I-15 CORE in Utah County and the first section of Mountain View Corridor in Salt Lake County were both finished in 2012.

Crews widened the highway from Main Street in Farmington to SR 193 in Layton, installed new pavement and built four new interchanges with on- and off-ramps to improve traffic flow and enhance safety.

The project was completed in three years.

As part of an event to celebrate the milestone, approximately 100 people walked, ran or rode bikes on the highway’s new frontage road system. The event started at the Antelope Drive Park and Ride and ended at the Adams Canyon Trailhead parking lot, which was relocated and enlarged as part of the U.S. 89 project so local residents could more easily access this recreation area.

Members from the Oak Hills Constructors team, Utah Senate President Stuart Adams, Mayor Joy Petro, Mayor Tamara Tran, other city and county officials, UDOT Region One Director Rob Wight, employees from UDOT and were on hand during the celebration as well.

Overall, the project upgrades included:

• Removed the old pavement on approximately nine miles of the highway and replaced it with new asphalt;

• Widened U.S. 89 to three lanes in both directions;

• Built four new interchanges with on- and offramps at 400 North in Fruit Heights and at Oak Hills Drive, Gordon Avenue, and Antelope Drive in Layton; see DECADE page 10

• Created a new frontage road system parallel to the highway to improve access to local neighborhoods and provide a safer route for cyclists.

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