Note to readers • The following story was reported by The Utah Investigative Journalism Project in partnership with KUER.

On June 30, 2023, a beaming Senate President Stuart Adams, R-Layton, joined a handful of local politicians to celebrate the completion of the U.S. 89 highway expansion. For years, Davis County commuters had negotiated orange traffic cones while the project was underway. Now, cyclists, walkers and runners cruised along brand new frontage roads and bridges from Antelope Drive to the Oak Hills Drive park-and-ride lot.

It was the Utah Department of Transportation’s largest construction project in a decade , pulling out stop lights, building bridges, on-ramps and a new lane of traffic to turn the state road into a full-fledged highway.

Adams told reporters his desir

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