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State officials who wanted the West Davis-Legacy Highway built in time for the 2002 Winter Olympics missed their target Wednesday.
The roadway -- if built at all -- cannot be completed until late 2002. The Olympics and its hundreds of thousands of anticipated visitors enter the state in February of that year.
Originally, the state Transportation Commission was to approve in early December the preferred 12-mile alignment of the new highway between Farmington and North Salt Lake.
Wednesday, it voted to delay that selection until June at the earliest.
Implications of a delay are significant:
-- The state cannot buy land in the highway corridor, and officials may have to extend a moratorium on other corridor development until the issue is resolved.
-- The timetable for reconstruction work on Interstate 15 north of Salt Lake City could be thrown off. Road builders hope to use a new West Davis-Legacy...