Utah State Route 19

Infobox road
state=UT
type=SR
route=19
marker_

alternate_name=I-70 Business
section=107
maint=UDOT
length_mi=4.552
length_round=3
length_ref= [http://www.dot.utah.gov/main/uconowner.gf?n=7726916913942755 UDOT Highway Reference, SR-19] ]
established=1969
direction_a=West
terminus_a=jct|state=UT|I|70|US|6|US|50|US|191 near Green River
direction_b=East
terminus_b=jct|state=UT|I|70|US|6|US|50|US|191 near Green River
previous_type=SR
previous_route=18
next_type=SR
next_route=20

State Route 19 (SR-19) is a state highway in southeastern Utah, running 4.552 miles in Emery and Grand Counties through Green River. It carries Business Loop I-70 along Main Street in Green River.

Route description

SR-19 begins at an interchange with I-70 west of Green River, then heads east through the center of town and turns south through the Utah Launch Complex of White Sands Missile Range. It ends at a frontage road just south of another intersection with I-70.

History

The main road through Green River was added to the state highway system in 1912 ,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=200609121733533 Route 8] |2=16.8 MB, updated September 2007, accessed May 2008] and numbered as part of SR-8 and US-50 in the 1920s.Rand McNally [http://www.broermapsonline.org/members/NorthAmerica/UnitedStates/NorthernRockies/Utah/ Auto Road Atlas] , 1926] The state legislature defined the portion through Green River as State Route 19 in 1969, although the bypass on I-70 had not yet been built.Utah Department of Transportation, [http://www.udot.utah.gov/download.php/tid=1348/StateRouteHistory.pdf State Route History] , accessed July 2007] Construction had begun in the mid-1980s, and when finished ,the old route, along with a new connection to exit 164, became SR-19. [cite map
publisher = Utah Department of Transportation
title = Official Highway Map - Utah Transportation Commission
year = 1983
scale = 1 inch = 17.4 miles
section = G7]

Major intersections

Jctint
state=UT
county=Emery
cspan=1
location=Green River
lspan=3
type=
mile=0.000-0.133
road=jct|state=UT|I|70|US|6|US|50|US|191|city1=Richfield
notes=Exit 160
Western terminusJctint
state=UT
county=Grand
cspan=2
type=
mile=4.449-4.528
road=jct|state=UT|I|70|US|6|US|50|US|191 – Grand Junction
notes=Exit 164Jctint
state=UT
type=
mile=4.552
road=Frontage Road
notes=Eastern terminus

References