Utah State Route 127

Infobox road
state=UT
type=SR
route=127
section=118
maint=UDOT


length_mi=2.507
length_round=3
length_ref=cite web | title=State Route 127 Highway reference | publisher=Utah Department of Transportation | url=http://www.udot.utah.gov/main/uconowner.gf?n=15510031525683525 | accessdate=2008-07-07]
established=1965
direction_a=West
terminus_a=jct|state=UT|SR|110 in Syracuse
direction_b=East
terminus_b=jct|state=UT|SR|108 in Syracuse
previous_type=SR
previous_route=126
next_type=SR
next_route=128

State Route 127 is a state highway in the state of Utah that spans convert|2.507|mi|km|3 within Syracuse in Davis County.

Route description

The eastern terminus of the route is at the intersection of SR-110 (4500 West) and 1700 South (west of SR-127, 1700 south becomes the Davis County Causeway, a causeway over the Great Salt Lake that provides access to Antelope Island). The route continues east until it ends at SR-108 (2000 West), while 1700 South continues east along SR-108.

History

The part of 1700 South east of 2000 West in Syracuse was added to the state highway system in 1931 as SR-108, a designation it still carries. [cite UTSR law|year=1931|quote=(108) From route 1 south of Clearfield westerly to Syracuse.] From 2000 West to 4500 West, the road became a state highway in 1935, but with a different number - SR-195 (which turned north on 4500 West to Hooper). [cite UTSR law|year=1935|quote=Route 195. From Hooper on route 37 southerly to Syracuse.] The entire length of SR-195 was removed from the state highway system in 1947, [cite UTSR law|year=1947|chapter=49] but was re-added in the 1960s. A new State Route 127 was designated in 1965, following the 1700 South portion of former SR-195 and continuing west to the north end of Antelope Island via the Antelope Island Causeway;Utah Department of Transportation, [http://www.udot.utah.gov/main/f?p=100:pg:5285268476414239680:::1:T,V:1348, Highway Resolutions] : PDFlink|1= [http://www.udot.utah.gov/main/uconowner.gf?n=200609181324231 Route 127] |2=774 KB, updated November 2007, accessed May 2008] 4500 West was restored in 1969 as a new SR-110.Utah Department of Transportation, [http://www.udot.utah.gov/download.php/tid=1348/StateRouteHistory.pdf State Route History] , accessed July 2007] The causeway was closed in June 1983 due to high water in the Great Salt Lake,Craig Hansell, Salt Lake Tribune, 2,000 Acres of Antelope Island Will Open, June 30, 1993, p. D1] and in 1991 the state legislature passed a law to fund a reconstruction through the Utah Division of Parks and Recreation. The Utah Transportation Commission gave the causeway to Davis County that year to make it possible for a toll to be charged, leaving SR-127 running only from SR-110 east to SR-108. The new causeway opened in July 1993, ten years after the old one had been closed.

=Major intersections=

Jctint
state=UT
county=Davis
cspan=2
location=Syracuse
lspan=2
mile=0.000
road=jct|state=UT|SR|110|name1=4500 West
notes=Western terminusJctint
mile=2.507
road=jct|state=UT|SR|108|name1=2000 West
notes=Eastern terminus

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