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The Washington State Department of Transportation launched the state's 511 service in July 2003. [36] On April 24, 2023, the WSDOT announced that it would deactivate the 511 telephone number within the state on May 19 of that year, citing declining usage (attributed to the use of smartphones and GPS navigation), old technology, and cost. [37] [38]
SR 89A Spur was originally established on July 16, 2004, over a small section of Fain Road immediately east of the intersection with SR 89A proper. [24] The route was extended over the remainder of Fain Road to SR 69 on August 18, 2011. [25] The road was originally two lanes wide but has since been widened to a four-lane divided highway. [26]
This map shows the incorporated areas and Indian reservation boundaries in Maricopa County, Arizona, along with water bodies and major highways and roads. Other incorporated cities are shown in gray, planning area borders for these cities and Indian reservation borders are shown as solid black lines.
There was significant local opposition in the 1960s and 1970s to expansion of the freeway system. [4] Because of this, by the time public opinion began to favor freeway expansion in the 1980s and 1990s, Phoenix freeways had to be funded primarily by local sales tax dollars rather than diminishing sources of federal money; newer freeways were, and continue to be, given state route designations ...
The Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) is the agency responsible for building and maintaining the Interstate Highways in the Arizona State Highway System. These highways are built to Interstate Highway standards , which are freeways that have a 75-mile-per-hour (121 km/h) speed limit in rural areas and a 65 mph (105 km/h) speed limit ...
In 1979, the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) approved a request from California and Arizona to truncate US 66 from the California state line, east to I-40 and US 666 in Sanders. [25] However, Arizona continued to designate and sign US 66 between Sanders and I-40/US 93 in Kingman. [26]
The Arizona State Highway system was introduced on September 9, 1927, by the State Highway Commission (formed on August 11 of the same year). It incorporated the new federal aid system and also the U.S. Highway system. The 1927 plan included 27 state routes, most of which were simply dirt roads.
It is home to over 86 percent of Arizona's population. Most of the Arizona Sun Corridor is in the Sonoran Desert. To the south of the region is the border between the United States and Mexico, and to the north and east is the Arizona transition zone and the Mountains of Arizona. The Southern California Megaregion is to the west and is the ...