UDOT wants local comment on proposed Mountain View Corridor extension
Apr 22, 2025, 6:00 AM
A Mountain View Corridor sign is pictured on Wednesday, May 1, 2019. (Jeffrey D. Allred/Deseret News)
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SALT LAKE CITY — The proposed 10-mile extension of Mountain View Corridor in Saratoga Springs is still in the beginning phases of development. So the Utah Department of Transportation is asking the public to weigh in on it.
“We want to collect as much information as we can from the public to go into the study to figure out what’s the best route for us to take for this project,” said Wyatt Woolley, UDOT Region 3 communications manager.
People can email their comments to mvcsouth@utah.gov until May 16. There’s an online public meeting on April 29, on Zoom at 6 p.m. And there’s an in-person public hearing on April 30 at Lake Mountain Middle School at 1058 S Old Farm Road in Saratoga Springs.
For those who are worried that the public comment timeframe is just a formality and their comments won’t be heard, Woolley assured people that they look at every comment that comes in.
“Well, this is a study, so this is actually the best time to make a comment because this is before the project is even a project,” Woolley said.
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The goal of the expansion is to alleviate the heavy traffic in the area and improve public safety by creating another exit route from Saratoga Springs. Woolley recounted the Knolls fire in 2020 when evacuations took hours on Redwood Road.
“There’s varying opinions all across the board of where we should put it, how it should go, how big it should be or (how) small it should be. And so we take everything into account. But our main goal is to move people,” Woolley said.
A UDOT study showed a 2050 population projection tripling the current number of residents in the area.
The proposed project would extend Mountain View Corridor from Cory Wride/Pioneer Crossing to Redwood Road near Pelican Point. It would also include two 12-foot-wide shared-use trails parallel to the frontage roads and the expressway.
The UDOT study also showed that the morning commute would jump 13 minutes to 27 minutes of delay each day if improvements are not made in this area. If the new extension is built, engineers expect to divert up to 22,000 vehicles off Redwood Road each weekday.
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