Interstate 15 North Through the Salt Lake Valley & Salt Lake City 

Yea now they need to focus on St. George is southwest Utah it desperately needs better roads

Indeed. Continuing the expansion projects south through Lehi and north through Tremonton will future proof a lot of this as it won't be long before it is one long urban corridor. South UT needs work too. Might as well get out ahead of Beaver and Cedar as well. My only complaint is the obvious issues with lane markings. They say we're going to get highly reflective markers but who knows when that project will start/end. Vegas does an incredible job with those markers. Wish we had those here.

​@@mycroft16Yeah, at night and in heavy rain or snow it's impossible to see the lane markers here. I know they haven't done it because most reflective lane markers stick up and would get destroyed by the snow plows, so they have to make cuts in the highway to make them flush, or use some other type of flat reflective marker that won't get torn off by the plows.

@@legoboy-ox2kxst George doesn’t have issues with snow really but we need arguably 4 lanes each way and at least 3 it may only be 220k people living there but we also have all the tourists here too

@@ExenitySinister666it’s not that bad

Thanks for tuning in Mark! Always enjoy reading your comments!

Thanks Matt!

Unlike almost every other Olympic host city all of our Olympic facilities were either already in public use or became public use so they still exist and are in excellent condition. Will significantly lower the cost to host again. They'll do a bunch of modernization upgrades of course, but shouldn't have to build much. And the new airport will be a major plus. Was a lot of fun in 02. Would love to have it here again.

Because the US is hosting the Summer Games in 2028 (L.A.), the IOC doesn't like the same country hosting the games back to back, so that knocks out 2030 but makes 2034 very possible (fingers crossed).

thats how i felt. i drove this stretch of freeway everyday for 2 years going to work

Salt Lake City is a virtual lock to host the 2034 Winter Olympics.

Long before the Ivory homes were built the Widowmaker was up the hill.

Thank you!

Thank you for watching!

We like to go fast out here 😂

Not a lot, just three from SLC to the Idaho border. Thanks for watching!

Maybe soon!

Thanks!

I really need to visit Iowa it’s the only state in the Midwest I haven’t been too.

I’m sure you won’t regret visiting the Hawkeye State!

You do realize that there are mountains to the east and to the west and there is also the Great Salt Lake, so the sprawl is length wise.

The east side has LONG been filled to the limit, right up to the mountains and even climbing the lower slopes in places. West has been largely empty... until the last 5 - 10 years. Salt Lake Co has pushed SIGNIFICANTLY out west. Used to just be I-215. Then they added Bangerter and Legacy. As the west push accelerated out into Daybreak, Harriman and more, now they've added the Mountain View Corridor and designed it as separate N/S with a bunch of room to expand between KNOWING there will be even more high growth. It's already pushing west of that towards the copper mine. Magna and those areas are already pushing up against the mountains and around into Tooele from the north. Down in UT Co the 2100 N road was created as separated directions for growth as well. Redwood Road has been expanded and is the connector for the Mountain View Corridor all they way south of the lake into Goshen/Elberta/Santaquin and there is talk of further expansion of Redwood into a more complete highway especially south of Saratoga Springs around the lakefront. At the south end Nephi is growing rapidly as well. Santaquin and Payson have seen expansion and growth as has Spanish Fork and those surrounding cities. Including west of I-15 into what was just farm/ranch lands. Build up around SF Airport is happening. It won't be long before Nephi/Santaquin/Payson merge together without intervening open lands. The same will apply along US-6 west to the termination of Readwood Rd as those smaller cities start to expand after the main N/S corridor locks up. Just as happened in SL and UT counties. Lehi used to have virtually nothing W of I-15 except Thanksgiving point. It is now nearly solid houses and condo/apt complexes right up to the mountains. And they are building literally as fast as they can right now to accomodate the MASSIVE influx due to the tech industry. In just the last 3 years alone they have added DOZENS of large scale condo/apt complexes, a new hospital, huge support retail growth along Redwood (restaurants, retail, shopping, dentists, grocery, etc). Eagle Mountain has grown significantly as well nearly doubling in size. Though the Army depot and Tooele range will keep growth from moving up the south side into Skull Valley, it will built up very much around there. Eureka is still pretty sleepy though. There was even a serious proposal to build manmade islands for housing IN Utah lake and link the east west shores and islands with a multi-lane highway bridge. Environmental mess and essentially a money scam, didn't pass, but there will need to be a 3rd route to the west of the lake eventually so something is going to happen. US-6 and 2100 N are NOT going to be enough even with expansion to handle the volume. I suspect 145 S exit at S end of SL Co will be rebuilt too. That road already connects into Redwood but it's a windy path through the quarry area. And none of this growth is going to take very long. 5 - 10 years and a lot of it will have already happened. It's moving so fast around here right now.

Maybe one day. I don’t know when I’ll be back, however.

Could do a nice 4 part series, I-15 through Utah county, I-15 through Salt Lake county, I-15 through Davis and Weber counties to the I-15 / I-84 split, I-80 through Summit, Salt Lake and Tooele counties

How long was your trip

@@elvador3042 5 days, going in a counter-clockwise direction, staying in Mesquite, Pocatello, Bend, and Cameron Park.

I-15. Haven’t been on I-84 from I-15 to I-86 split… yet lol

I live here, and yeah, Utah drivers are legit insane. Originally from Colorado, have lived in TX too. Pretty reasonable drivers there. The drive from Vegas to LA on Sunday afternoon is a solid traffic jam... that moves at 70mph the entire time with turn signals used extremely well and people let you in and out of lanes for the most part. Despite the stress of 70mph bumper to bumper, it is a relatively easy drive. UT is just nuts. Gotta be extremely alert. Even the cops here drive much more aggressively and crazy.

Salt Lake City’s traffic is a lot better than 80% of the country in other major cities.

How recently have you driving it? That entire stretch used to be 3 lanes only no HOV, no service lanes, poorly designed exits, all that backed up significantly during rush hours. They have been improving and adding since 2000. It is SOOOO much better than what used to be here. And the growth of the region is so rapid that it is starting to show strain again in places. Which is why they have added 2 more loop roads on the west side of the city and have been expanding E/W routes as access to those. I forget which road it is, but they have made the lanes variable direction using overhead lane signs. In the morning they can have 5 eastbound and 2 westbound lanes, and in the evening change it to 5 west and 2 east lanes to handle the changing traffic flow to/from work. That is a really smart solution without having to expand a road already built right up to by TONS of neighborhoods.