Slowly converting Bangerter Highway into a freeway speeds up commute by 8 minutes

They cost $216 million. But the four freewaylike interchanges added to Bangerter Highway last year have shortened afternoon peak-time commutes by eight minutes, new data say.“That’s actually impressive because that still includes some big backups” daily at regular intersections with signals that tend to slow the flow between the new interchanges, said Brad Palmer, program manager for the Utah Department of Transportation’s Region 2.Last year, UDOT finished freewaylike int