Salt Lake Tribune · Feb 26, 2019
Committee kills second bill to keep big rigs off Legacy Highway
(Rick Egan | Tribune file photo) Big trucks stay to the right, on highway 89, to merge onto I-15, because of the ban on big-rig trucks on the Legacy Parkway. Thursday, Feb. 7, 2019.It voted 6-5 to kill HB339 by Rep. Melissa Ballard, R-North Salt Lake, who worried the big rigs will increase pollution, lead to noise walls that will ruin views of the Great Salt Lake and essentially convert a country road into another Interstate 15. Her bill would have extended the current truck ban another five years.
The ban on trucks was part of a compromise 15 years ago between the state and environmental groups to end a lawsuit that had blocked construction of the 11.5-mile highway in Davis County.