More construction planned for 12th Street

OGDEN — The nightmare on 12th Street isn’t over yet. Officials at a Wasatch Front Regional Council meeting in Clearfield on Wednesday announced that the Top of Utah corridor, which has been under heavy construction since last fall, will undergo more work next year.

Utah Department of Transportation engineer Kevin Griffin said the next round of 12th Street construction will take place from Washington Boulevard to Harrison Boulevard and will include pavement rehabilitation, new asphalt and new seal.

Wheelchair ramps and signal improvements will also be included in the project.

“Yes, Ogden will have more construction next year, unfortunately,” Griffin said.
“But once it’s over, that area will be set for a while.”

Current construction on 12th Street, from Interstate 15 to Washington Boulevard, will be completed by the end of the year.

UDOT said when it’s finished, that stretch of road won’t need any more work.

The road will be equipped with new curbs and gutters, improved drainage and water and sewer upgrades.

The intersection of 12th Street and Wall Avenue will have been widened and 7-foot-wide sidewalks will have been added on both sides of 12th Street.

Raised concrete medians will have been added at the intersections of 12th Street and 1200 West, as well as at 12th and Wall and at an upgraded Union Pacific Railroad crossing.

When the project is finished, UDOT officials said, the newly refurbished road will be safer for motorists and pedestrians and will improve traffic flow.

UDOT Region One spokesman Vic Saunders said construction on the second phase of 12th Street won’t present as many problems as the first one did.

“The bad news is, there is going to be more work on 12th Street, but the good news is, this project will have much fewer impacts and take a lot less time,” Saunders said. “It’s just a repaving project, so we won’t have to tear up the entire street.”

Saunders said the new construction will begin in the spring and likely will be finished by the end of the summer.

“With this type of repaving project, it typically takes 60 to 90 days to complete,” he said.

“We don’t anticipate being on that stretch of road for very long.”