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The route then heads east along the Beardsley Road alignment. The freeway enters northern Phoenix, and at milepost 23, Loop 101 intersects I-17 15 miles (24 km) north of Downtown Phoenix. Pima Freeway. Continuing east as the Pima Freeway, Loop 101 travels just south of Deer Valley Airport before intersecting the northern terminus of SR 51 at ...
State Route 30 (SR 30), also known as the Tres Rios Freeway, is a planned freeway in the southwest part of the Phoenix metropolitan area. It is planned as a reliever for Interstate 10 five miles to the south and will run through the communities of Buckeye , Goodyear , Avondale , and Phoenix .
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 SanTan Freeway runs from there to an interchange with Interstate 10 (I-10) in Chandler. The Congressman Ed Pastor Freeway runs from there to I-10 in western Phoenix. Loop 202 was created after different sections of freeway within the Phoenix metro were given the designation, with the first section designated in 1990.
State Route 50, also known as the Paradise Parkway, was a proposed urban freeway through Glendale and Phoenix.Originally proposed in 1968 as SR 317, [1] the freeway would have run east to west, connecting the future State Route 51 and Loop 101, while running roughly parallel to, and 4 miles (6.4 km) north of, I-10 in the vicinity of Camelback Road.
The Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT, / ˈ eɪ d ɒ t /) is an Arizona state government agency charged with facilitating mobility within the state. In addition to managing the state's highway system, the agency is also involved with public transportation and municipal airports. The department was created in 1974 when the state merged ...
Prior to this time, the freeway was known as the Squaw Peak Parkway, a name considered offensive by Native Americans. [2] Rapid growth and increased traffic demand on the east side of Metro Phoenix made the Piestewa Freeway necessary. [citation needed] The freeway was proposed at least as far back as 1955.
The ADOT Traffic Monitoring Group calculated an Annual Average Daily Traffic (AADT) of 42,939 cars in 2018 and calculated an AADT estimate of 71,978 cars in 2040 for a portion of this road. [11] In 2012, SR 347 from Farrell Road in Maricopa north to I-10 was added to the National Highway System , a system of roads in the United States important ...