UDOT will begin selling off large parcels of land not needed for construction?

Don't they ever stop to think in the future there may be a need for more than two lanes in each direction? Short sighted thinking.

As you drive this on Monday, I hope you stop and think, "Dang. I could have been driving this 8 years ago if it wasn't for Rocky!"

Enjoy.

The Legacy cooidor is over 300 feet wide. I think a travel lane is 12 feet wide. You do the math. There is room for more lanes. This ground must be outside the cooidor.

If you wanted the highway to open far earlier than September 2008, thank the tree-huggers for the delay. If you commute on Legacy and you realize that it should be wider, thank the enviro whackos for keeping the number of lanes down. If you're a business who relies upon trucks going between Davis County and West Valley and you can't use the highway, thank politicians who don't stand up to the environmental cultists. If you're a taxpayer who is annoyed that the highway came in far over budget and can't handle the traffic capacity it could have if it wasn't intentionally kept from doing so, thank the environmentalists. If you're a commuter who wants to travel normal highway speeds and you're limited to 55mph, keep that in mind when you vote this November and vote against those who are controlled by an extreme environmentalist agenda.

As I drove Legacy Saturday evening there was virtually no one driving the 55 MPH speed limit. I can drive 65 MPH on almost any two lane highway in the state. Is this going to be a huge speed trap and ticket revenue generator? What a speed limit JOKE!!

Good job SLC...you elected the worst mayor in history and we end up with a highway that is already obsolete........two lanes and nearly a $1 Billion and No Skybridge for 14 miles?...time to rally Rocky in Whino Park!

The Sierra Club did the same thing in southern Nevada. They filed a lawsuit and obtained an injunction to delay construction of a much needed widening of the freeway in the northwest part of Las Vegas valley. The case was eventually settled. The main accomplishment of their delay was to increase the time and cost for the project. Their central planners in San Francisco were pleased.

Thank heaven for the Sierra Club, and Rocky. Everyone is touting how beautiful the highway is and how well the wetlands were protected, and restored. I'm perplexed that a local culture that prides themselves in excellence in public construction would be so slip shod on preserving our state's natural resources. Go figure.

What are "normal" highway speeds? 75, 65, 55, 45? Depends on what highway you're driving on. If normal is 75, use I-15. The posted speed-limit is 65 on the section which parallels Legacy, but good citizens who use that stretch of road know that is only an advisory.

The goal was not to build a "beautiful" highway. The absolute need was to deal with the awful traffic congestion on I-15. But the enviros butted in an forced long delays, massive over spending, and the result was a highway that was obsolete the day it was opened. Your logic is the same logic that prevents the U.S. from becoming independent on oil production and for preventing new drilling and refining capacity to bring oil/gas prices down.

If drivers are fed up with the high price of gas, I hope that they remember all the "liberal Larries" in Congress this November who have directly contributed to the high price of gas with their crazy environmentalist laws and regulations. There is something to be said for conservationism, but it has to be done reasonably and practically and the obsolete-on-opening-day Legacy highway and the high price of gas right now are the legacy that unreasonable and impractical environmentalism has brought. Remember in November...

My sense is that the predicted 30% offload of I-15 traffic is extremely wishful thinking. There is no way in heaven that road can carry that type of throughput.

And for all the Sierra Club types who are congratulating themselves--let's be frank: the difference in impact between this road and the one that was started in 2001 is minimal. Meanwhile, we've had years of cars backed up on not just I-15, but all the adjacent surface streets, moving at a snail's pace during rush hour, emitting hydrocarbons into the atmosphere at an accelerated rate because a) they're here longer, and b) the engines are running less efficiently. Legacy will do precious little to alleviate that problem.

If you guys really cared one whit about the environment and the beauty of the State of Utah, you'd descend from your ivory towers, stop the posturing and the "window dressing" of an "environmentally sensitive" road, and pursue real, concrete solutions to real problems.

Your utopia does NOT exist, but we can get a lot closer by being practical than being head-in-the-clouds idealistic on this.

Sorry to rain on the Legacy parade, but folks: "The emperor has no clothes!!!"

"land no longer needed for construction" is land that is needed during the construction process, for example: to provide access to the construction site, for storage of construction assets (equipment, parts, management, etc.) Once construction is finished, this land is no longer required.

Everyone is complaining here, someone please tell me what they thought of the views. Has nobody drove it yet??!! or is everyone here just to complain?

The drive is very nice and relaxing at 55. However, pity the fool commuters who try to get off on Parrish or 500 S... until they get Parrish overpass finished. What a joke. We were stuck on it Sat night at 8PM, and waited about 5 mins to get through the light. Legacy is for N. Davis commuters, not for Bountiful Centerville residents. What's this going to do to the I-15 south-to-I-80 east transition tomorrow, and the 600 S exit in SLC? Should be interesting.

Temporary solution at best. More and more Utahns are moving farther and farther from work and shopping centers. And they are living in bigger and bigger houses on larger and larger plots of land. Add that to the fact that Utah has one of the highest birth rates in the nation. The result is not a pleasant senario.

Developers in Utah completely dominate local planning, at the expense of the environment and quality of life. Most Utahns are too short-sited to see that what makes Utah such a great place is dwindling away. Utahns need to realize that they will be spending more time in cars as it is becoming increasingly impossible to walk or bike to work, social places, and shops. This coupled with the fact that people live farther away from work than ever before. Continuely increasing fuel prices (they may go down, but it is like a yo-yo on an escalator) will hit Utahns very hard. And Utahns will struggle to pay for heating and air conditioning costs in their large, inefficient homes.

Meanwhile, enjoy your highway! You will have to people many more to keep up with the mess you are creating.

Can't wait to see the northbound bottle neck in farmington monday afternoon. Traffic is already slow and backed up where legacy merges. Now try dumping an entire parkway into the mix and it's going to be a mess! And like the previous poster noted, Parrish lane is a joke right now. I too was caught trying to go east into centerville. Would it kill udot to reconfigure the traffic light until the construction is done?

I liked driving the parkway. Saturday we drove to 21st north and back to Farmington. It was nice. Then today we drove to 5th south and back. Counted six squashed racoons and 3 skunk. Hope UDOT has a full time crew to scrap up the roadkill!

200 million more and how many years later to protect what? Sierra and their friends legacy is a sad one.

All hail King Rocky! I can almost see him standing on his beautiful roadside towers (rameumptons?) pontificating about how he saved all the ducks! I guess it's better than nothing, but I wonder how long it will take for people to realize that if they go 65 mph on I-15, the will still get to West Valley faster than if the go 55 mph on Rocky's Nature Trail? (This A.M., most people were flying by me like I was standing still. I'm sure the UHP is waiting in the wings with tickets for speeders as soon as the confetti is swept up!)

All in all, however, the trip is better that before when there was daily gridlock. Now if we can get the speed limit up to 65 mph and add a couple more lanes, it would really be a good addition to the state's system of transportation.

from my home to work - the difference by taking legacy vs I15 is less than one mile, 0.8 miles to be exact: 31.4 on legacy and 32.2 on I 15. the difference in time is 4 minutes longer on legacy driving at 61 MPH on legacy and 70 on I I15, even with slower speeds at the wasatch weave...
Legacy is not a parkway, it parallels I15 for much of its length, there are comparable 'ponds' on I15 at kayesville, it is first and foremost a commuter option, the 55 mph is absurd, to bill this a a scenic route is a crock.

it does provide the absolutely necessary alternative access to an from davis county and for that i am extremely gratefull, but we got rolled like a drunk in a dark alley by the sierra club, rocky, et al. equestian? foot paths, bikes? gimme a third lane and 65!