Utah State Route 134
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Utah State Route 134 is a state highway
State highway
State highway, state road or state route can refer to one of three related concepts, two of them related to a state or provincial government in a country that is divided into states or provinces :#A...

 in the state of Utah
Utah
Utah is a state in the Western United States. It was the 45th state to join the Union, on January 4, 1896. Approximately 80% of Utah's 2,763,885 people live along the Wasatch Front, centering on Salt Lake City. This leaves vast expanses of the state nearly uninhabited, making the population the...

 that connects the cities of West Haven
West Haven, Utah
West Haven is a city in Weber County, Utah, United States. The population was 3,976 at the 2000 census. It was incorporated on July 1, 1991, combining the unincorporated communities of Kanesville and Wilson....

, West Weber
West Weber, Utah
West Weber is an unincorporated community in Weber County, Utah, United States.It is located about eight miles northwest of Ogden. West Weber was reportedly organized as a ward in 1877, when it had a population of 700 inhabitants. The community is located northeast of the intersection of Utah State...

, Plain City
Plain City, Utah
Plain City is a city in Weber County, Utah, United States. The population was 3,489 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Ogden–Clearfield, Utah Metropolitan Statistical Area.-History:...

, Farr West
Farr West, Utah
Farr West is a city in Weber County, Utah, United States. The population was 3,094 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Ogden–Clearfield, Utah Metropolitan Statistical Area.-Geography:Farr West is located at ....

, Pleasant View
Pleasant View, Utah
Pleasant View is a city in Weber County, Utah, United States. The population was 5,632 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Ogden–Clearfield, Utah Metropolitan Statistical Area...

, and North Ogden
North Ogden, Utah
North Ogden is a city in Weber County, Utah, United States. The population was 15,027 at the 2000 census. North Ogden is on SR-235, three miles north of Ogden. It is a suburb of that city and is part of the Ogden –Clearfield, Utah Metropolitan Statistical Area.-History:North Ogden was...

 over a distance of 14.3 miles (23 km) in western and northern Weber County
Weber County, Utah
Weber County is a county located in the U.S. state of Utah, occupying a stretch of the Wasatch Front, part of the eastern shores of Great Salt Lake, and much of the rugged Wasatch Mountains. As of the 2000 census, the population was 196,533, an increase of 24.1% over its population in 1990. By...

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Route description

State Route 134 begins in the community of Kanesville (incorporated as part of the city of West Haven) as 4700 West, at its intersection with SR-37 (4000 South). From this point, it travels straight north for about 7.4 miles (11.9 km) through West Weber and into Plain City. In Plain city, the route turns east on 2200 North for about 0.4 mile (0.643736 km) and again turns north on 4350 West through the middle of the city. Shortly thereafter, the route makes another jog to the east and the north before finally leaving Plain City eastward on 2600 North. The route continues eastward for its final 5.9 miles (9.5 km), passing through Farr West, passing under I-15 at an interchange and intersecting US-89 1 miles (1.6 km) later, and continiung through Pleasant View before ending in North Ogden at its intersection with SR-235 (Washington Boulevard).

History

The road from Kanesville north to Plain City was first established a federal aid project
Federal-Aid Highway Act
The following bills and Acts of Congress in the United States have been known as the Federal-Aid Highway Act or similar names:*Federal Aid Road Act of 1916: July 11, 1916, ch...

 in 1933, and designated a state highway in 1935 as State Route 40.. The route was extended from Plain City eastward to Pleasant View in 1969. State Route 40 was renumbered to State Route 134, its current designation, in the 1977 Utah state route renumbering
1977 Utah state route renumbering
In 1977, the Utah State Legislature changed its system of how state route numbers were used and assigned. Prior to 1977 Utah used a system where every U.S. Highway and Interstate Highway traversing the state was also assigned a different Utah state route number. This state route number was not...

. The route remained unchanged until 2004, when the newly constructed roadway of 2700 North in North Ogden provided an extension to the route, taking it east to Washington Boulevard. In the process, the older road it replaced (2550 North) which had been designated as part of SR-235, was returned to local control with SR-235 being extended north 800 feet (243.8 m) along Washington Boulevard to meet the new terminus of SR-134.

Major intersections

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