History
State Route 103 was originally on an alignment of Harrison Street in the city of Ogden. In the late half of 1964 and the beginning half of 1965, the state of Utah and the Department of Transportation deleted the alignment of SR-103 on Harrison Street from the state highway system. The route was then transferred to the city of Ogden for maintenance. The highway's designation, State Route 103, was soon removed from the alignment.
On April 19, 1965, the state of Utah proposed the takeover of the alignment of 600 North in Clearfield as a state highway. The alignment, which the state felt was a major connector to a federal military institution, Hill Air Force Base, from U.S. Route 91 and Interstate 15 was chosen as a state highway. U.S. Route 91, before the formation of Interstate 15, was the major thoroughfare through Utah, connecting it to California and Montana. State Route 103 was then designated onto its alignment, adding 0.50-mile (0.80 km) to the Utah state route system. Prior to designation, the alignment of 600 North went from U.S. Route 91 and uninterrupted until the Hill Air Force Base. In 1964, a year prior to designation, a 26.9-foot (8.2 m) long concrete culvert bridge was constructed over the Davis Weber Canal. The two bridges for Interstate 15's southbound and northbound were built in 1966 and are two 159.1-foot (48.5 m) long concrete continuous tee beam overpasses.
The route has been mostly unchanged since its formation, except for the moniker of the highway and the western terminus, of which SR-103 progresses. The western terminus, in a stretch of fourteen years from its inception, has gone from State Route 1 in 1965, to State Route 106 in 1967 to State Route 84 in 1969 and State Route 126 in 1979. In 1979, the moniker of the highway for State Route 103 was changed from 600 North to 650 North. In 1998, the alignment of State Route 103 was adjusted in the state highway law.
The alignment of State Route 103, outside of the roadway realignments, have received some technical changes as well. In November 1992, the Utah Department of Transportation confirmed that the interchange of Interstate 15 and State Route 103 (Interchange 103), was to be given traffic lights to help monitor traffic. The mayor at the time, Neldon Hamblin, approved of the project, and put the project up for bids for construction. The interchange was holding up motorists needing to turn left had to wait, at times, about 20 minutes.
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