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Because the Mountain View Corridor bisects residential and commercial neighborhoods that include Hunter High School and Hillside Elementary School, the design-build team implemented a community-centric approach.
Utah’s Mountain View Corridor
Even before formal project launch, UDOT outlined several require- ments that it knew could be challenging for the design-build team. First, since the Mountain View Corridor bisects residential and com- mercial neighborhoods in West Valley City — neighborhoods that in- clude both Hunter High School and Hillside Elementary School — the design-build needed to allow residents of Utah’s second-largest city to continue their accustomed walking, driving, and shopping patterns while prioritizing pedestrian and driver safety. In addition, while the corridor is a new road, it is an interim step in the ultimate development of a freeway and, as such, still had to include intersections with traffic lights. Thus, the team needed to construct the road so that it could be converted relatively easily to a freeway in the future. With these requirements serving as the guide, the team determined to implement a plan that was transparent, included resident input, and caused minimal disruptions to the lives of West Valley residents and motorists.
Design-build greenfield roadway is a model for community-contractor collaboration By J. Darren Burton, P.E., and Bryce Jaynes
To accommodate significant growth in the Salt Lake Valley, the Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT) envisioned development of a 35-mile freeway called the Mountain View Corridor to link I-80 in Salt Lake with SR-73 in Utah County, providing commuters and residents an alternative to the heavily traveled I-15. After completion of the ini- tial segment, UDOT in February 2016 engaged the joint venture team of Ralph L. Wadsworth Construction Company and Staker Parsons Companies, with Michael Baker International as the lead designer, for the design and build of the second segment, which included 2.5 miles of greenfield roadway.
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