AMERICAN FORK -- The five cities through which a major northern county thoroughfare runs can't agree on what to name it.
The road runs from the Paradise Boulevard in Alpine to the Alpine Highway, along 4800 West to U-89 in American Fork and will eventually connect to an I-15 interchange in Pleasant Grove.Sean Eliot, transportation planner for the Mountainland Association of Governments, has found that the road carries at least nine names, including the unofficial name, Training School Road. It gets especially confusing, he said, in American Fork and Pleasant Grove, where one side is 1100 East and the other is 2000 West.
Association planners concocted three names: Lone Peak Parkway, Mount Timpanogos Parkway and Timpanogos Parkway, which Eliot has been circulating among the city councils for their opinions.
Lone Peak Parkway is the choice for Alpine, Highland and Cedar Hills since the idea surfaced when a Lone Peak High School student asked the Highland City Council to rename the portion that runs in front of the school.
But Pleasant Grove chose Timpanogos Parkway and American Fork, Mount Timpanogos Parkway.
The road is heavily traveled both with traffic from the high school and the LDS Church's Mount Timpanogos Temple. It has also become an eastern alternate to I-15.
Some Pleasant Grove officials said they didn't want it named after the LDS Church's temple, a concern one American Fork council member thought silly.
"The mountain was there long before the temple," said Clark Taylor. "Mount Timpanogos wasn't named after the temple."
But American Fork City Council members balked at naming it after a high school in Alpine even though students from their city attend Lone Peak. The school is actually named after a peak in the mountains east of all five cities.
Eliot said one solution would be to name the northern section of the road Lone Peak Parkway and the southern section Mt. Timpanogos Boulevard.
Once one, or two, names have been chosen, each city will have to adopt a name change for its portion of the road and put up signs bearing the name of the city and the street coordinate, Eliot said.