For the next ten years, portions of the highway opened as constructed, with the entire route finished by 1998.

Original plans for the six-lane expressway running through the western suburbs of Salt Lake City placed Bangerter Highway running further north past the Salt Lake City International Airport into Davis County.

State Route 154 (Bangerter Highway) begins just southeast of a single-point urban interchange at I-15 at the intersection of 13800 South in the Salt Lake City suburb of Draper.

The three-lane road curves from the north to the west and widens to four lanes before accessing the I-15 interchange.

Past the freeway exit, SR-154 expands to three lanes in each direction with a median barrier in the center.

It continued north along what was then the west boundary of the then Salt Lake City Municipal Airport No.

1 (now Salt Lake City International Airport) into 4000 West, curving east onto 2200 North and ending at I-215.

[6] Later the north segment was rerouted to continue north-northeasterly from the airport into Davis County;[7] parts of this are now the Legacy Parkway.

Salt Lake County was able to build the highway between SR-201 (2100 South) and I-80 with federal funding, but it took the state to finish it.