Overview

Sunnyside Avenue, between Foothill Drive and the City limits, will be chip sealed in Summer 2021. A chip seal adds another layer to the roadway surface, prolonging the life of the roadway by 5-7 years. A chip seal also provides a blank slate and opportunities to rethink the striping for travel lanes, turn lanes, bike lanes, and parking.

The City’s proposed design would maintain the same number of travel lanes (two in each direction, and one center turn lane) in order to accommodate high volumes of motor vehicles during special events at Hogle Zoo and This is the Place Heritage Park.

Sunnyside Avenue, which connects to Emigration Canyon, also boasts the busiest bike lanes in the city. There may be opportunities to improve the width, consistency, and quality of the bike lanes, as well. The project team will be reaching out to residents and stakeholders during 2021 to collect any additional ideas.

Draft Design

The draft design for the 2021 Sunnyside Avenue restriping is now available. Click here to download the Sunnyside Avenue Draft Design (PDF).

Initial outreach to the community, bicycling groups, and Salt Lake County has revealed great ideas, almost all of which have been able to be incorporated into this first design. Your comments now will help us refine the design further and make the project even better. Please let the team know if you have comments on the draft design by either completing the survey or sending an email (survey link and email are toward the bottom of this page).

The City’s and the public’s goal is safer traffic, better bike lanes, and more predictability. Highlighted changes and benefits are included below and in the design document itself.

• Maintaining two traffic lanes in each direction, and one center turn lane, to accommodate commuter and peak event traffic
• Narrowing traffic lanes, resulting in safer speeds
• Widening bike lanes and adding painted buffers in some locations
• Repurposing nine on-street parking spaces between Connor Street and 2200 East in order to add longer dual left turn lanes (westbound) at Foothill Drive
• Formalizing the eastbound, up-canyon lane merge east of the Crestview Drive intersection

Other possible changes (e.g., utility covers, missing or severely degraded asphalt, a new section of the 9-Line/Sunnyside trail, 2300 East crosswalk and median, free westbound right turn closure at Foothill, concrete at Arapeen and Foothill, Bonneville Shoreline trailhead, signage, and speed limits) are still being worked out and may be part of this or future projects.