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Originally Posted by jubguy3
In case anyone wanted to see how we can create a better sense of place on our freeways, I'll post my list of names we could adopt instead of the bland names we have now ( legacy parkway, belt route, 21st south Expwy). Please ignore the interstate designations if you do not like them. It's conceptual, and they are not meant for you this time. I know I've gotten — for even mentioning this in the past.
Issues include: IOC rights for Olympic Expwy, the fact that we would have to maintain the veterans memorial freeway and Eisenhower freeway designation (can we please just move vets freeway to I-84, it's honestly much prettier and scenic than I-15), the fact that MVC runs miles away from the Oquirrh Bench, and if the east belt should be considered a spur because it never actually connects back to I-15 (I'm not knowledges learned smarts educationated on this)
MVC - I-415 Oquirrh Bench Expressway
21Exw - I-180 Washington Expressway (this has no sense of place... Suggestions for a better name?)
Legacy - I-615 Davis Expwy (post widening, north extension
East Belt - I-515 Olympic Expressway
West Belt - I-215 Jordan Expressway
Veteran Memorial - I-15 Valley Freeway
East Eisenhower - I-80 Canyon Freeway
West Eisenhower - I-80 South Bayshore Freeway
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I find little I can agree with of your designations. I really prefer the simpleness of the number designations and don't like giving them arbitrary "memorial/geographical names. Some of your names are not even tied to an existing geographical reference that the mass public would even understand (South Bayshore Freeway).
I-15 in California has countless different names and I feel that it only adds to confusion. In the San Diego area it is known as the Escondido Freeway, the Tuskegee Airmen Highway, then it's the Avocado Highway just south of Escondido while still designated as the Escondido Freeway... I could go on.
If we applied California's principles of designation to I-15 here...
I-15 would be
- Wasatch Front Expressway from Nephi to Brigham City (for obvious reasons)
- Peach Freeway in Box Elder County (for their delicious peaches)
- Fort Buenaventura Freeway in Weber County (for the first permanent [white] settlement in Ogden)
- Bedroom Community Freeway in Davis County (cause that's really what DC is filled with; I was raised there—CHS '93)
- Deedee Corradini Freeway in Salt Lake County (she was a major factor in being awarded the olympics and obtaining funding for the freeway's expansion in time for the olympics, and of course the capitol city's first female mayor)
- Happy Valley (or Prozac) Freeway in Utah County (no explanation needed).
If we are adding names, the only ones I can agree with would be
- "The 201"/SR 201/2100 South Freeway as the Magna Freeway (since that's really where it ends)
- SR 67/Legacy Highway really is a good name but if it were renamed, it should be the West Davis Freeway since that is it's geographical location
- SR 85/Mountain View Corridor sounds like a temporary name—could be renamed Oquirrh Hills Freeway
- SR 145/Pioneer Crossing could be renamed Pony Expressway since the Pony Express went through that general area and it looks like if it expands west and southwest then it will likely follow a similar route
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