State Route 55 is a short
highway
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that loops around the town of
Price
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in central
Utah
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,
United States
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, beginning and ending at
US-6/
US-191 in a span of three miles (5 km). It is an old routing of US-6 and
US-50. The entire route is
co-signed with U.S. Route 6 Business.
Route description
From its western terminus at the offramp of US-6/US-191, the highway goes east on 100 North. At its junction 300 East, it turns south briefly before returning east on Main Street. It continues on Main Street, which veers to the south until meeting again with another grade-separated intersection.
The route is listed as part of the
National Highway System.
History
The route through downtown Price had been designated
SR-8 early in the state highway system's history; it would also become
US-50 in 1926 and
US-6 in 1937. The underlying state route designation was changed to
SR-27 in 1969, but otherwise the routes did not change. However, by the 1970s, a new
super-two
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bypass of the city center was being built for long-distance through traffic. As a result, the U.S. routes were moved onto this bypass, and the modern iteration of SR-55 was created in 1975 on the old routing of US 6/50. Since then, the route has not been changed.
Major intersections
References
External links
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