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State Route 19 (SR-19) is a state highway in southeastern Utah, running in Emery and Grand Counties through
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. It carries Business Loop I-70 along Main Street in Green River.


Route description

SR-19 begins at an interchange with I-70 west of Green River and then heads east through the center of town and turns south through the Utah Launch Complex of
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. It ends at a frontage road just south of another intersection with I-70.


History

The main road through
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was added to the state highway system in 1912
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Highway Resolutions
 , updated September 2007, accessed May 2008
and numbered as part of
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in the 1920s.
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1926
The state legislature defined the portion through Green River as State Route 19 in 1969, although the bypass on
I-70 Interstate 70 (I-70) is a major east–west Interstate Highway in the United States that runs from I-15 near Cove Fort, Utah, to a park and ride lot just east of I-695 in Baltimore, Maryland, and is the fifth-longest Interstate in the co ...
had not yet been built.
Utah Department of Transportation The Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT) is an agency of the state government of Utah, United States; it is usually referred to by its initials UDOT (pronounced "you-dot"). UDOT is charged with maintaining the more than of roadway that co ...

State Route History
, accessed July 2007
Construction had begun in the mid-1980s, and when finished, the old route, along with a new connection to exit 164, became SR-19.


Major intersections


See also

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List of state highways in Utah The U.S. state of Utah, the Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT) operates a system of state routes that serve all portions of the state. In official documents the state of Utah uses the term "state routes" for numbered, state maintained h ...


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