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UDOT outlines timeline, utility and aqueduct challenges for Bangerter Highway project
Summary
UDOT project director provided a multi-interchange update on the Bangerter Highway corridor, including schedule targets (design-builder solicitation in 2027), large funding figures, and major technical challenges such as relocating a 66-inch Bureau of Reclamation aqueduct and significant right-of-way impacts.
UDOT's project team presented a progress update and schedule for the next construction segment of Bangerter Highway covering the 41st, 35th, 31st and Parkway interchange areas. The team said environmental work and right-of-way acquisition have advanced and funding has been secured for the next phases, but that utility relocations and the Bureau of Reclamation aqueduct present major technical constraints and will drive alignment and cost trade-offs.
The project director described the aqueduct challenge in blunt terms: "This pipe is a 66 inch diameter, and it's over 45 years old." The presentation covered phased timelines (RFP/design-builder in summer 2027, anticipated selection late 2027, then multi-year construction), potential property acquisitions, and design options (overpass vs. hybrid solutions) with trade-offs for traffic impacts, adjacency to the golf course and pedestrian/shared-use paths.
