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Roy City installs new pedestrian/bicycle bridge on 5600 South as part of UDOT roadway project
Summary
Roy City officials described a new 12-foot multiuse bridge and separated trail along 5600 South, delivered in conjunction with a major UDOT roadway widening; planners said packaging active-transportation infrastructure with larger road projects reduced incremental cost.
Roy City officials described a newly completed pedestrian and bicycle bridge and a separated 12-foot trail along 5600 South (SR-97) that were installed as part of a UDOT roadway widening project.
Steve Parkinson, Roy City (planner), briefed the Active Transportation Committee on the configuration and context for the new bridge across busy SR-97/5600 South and the connection to the DNRG trail. He said the trail runs 12 feet wide on the south side with a three-foot buffer from the road, and the new bridge provides a grade-separated crossing for schoolchildren and other users where prior crossings required navigating multiple lanes of fast-moving traffic.
When asked about the bridge cost, Parkinson said the structure was built as part of the larger UDOT interchange and corridor project, and he did not have a specific dollar figure. Staff noted that packaging active-transportation elements into large roadway projects (Parkinson said the roadway project was over $200 million) can make trail-grade separations more feasible than trying to fund them separately.
Parkinson also described regional trail connections in northern Weber and Davis counties, including the 3 Gates Trail (an old rail corridor repurposed for active transportation) that will cross under I-15 and connect to north–south corridors. He noted the city’s inclusion of the separated trail in its 2018 general plan update and coordination with neighboring cities and UDOT as factors that enabled the facility.
Committee members praised the bridge and discussed how regional north–south connections can be linked by east–west projects such as 5600 South.
