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I-10's freeway section ended in Goodyear until the controversial Papago Freeway was finished across the western Valley of the Sun in 1990. During the "west valley gap" years, westbound I-10 traffic was routed off the Maricopa Freeway at 19th Avenue in Phoenix, and stayed on the access road as it curved past the Durango Curve.
The longest Interstate in Arizona is I-10, which spans 392.33 miles (631.39 km) [1] across southern and central Arizona, and the shortest Interstate is I-15, which only traverses the northwestern corner of the state, running from Nevada to Utah, spanning only 29.39 miles (47.30 km).
Interstate 10 (I-10) is the southernmost transcontinental highway in the Interstate Highway System. I-10 is the fourth-longest Interstate in the United States at 2,460.34 miles (3,959.53 km), following I-90, I-80, and I-40. This freeway is part of the originally planned network that was laid out in 1956, and its last section was completed in 1990.
Drivers around Arizona will experience many road closures this weekend on interstates 10 and 17, beginning Friday and into the holiday weekend.
It was the last segment of I-10 to be completed nationwide, opening to traffic in August 1990. It features the Deck Park Tunnel—in actuality, 13 side-by-side bridges supporting Margaret T. Hance Park. [8] I-10 turns south at the Mini Stack, which connects to State Route 51 to the north and Loop 202 to the east.
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 ...
In 1981, SR 63 was decommissioned after it and BIA Route 12 became a southern extension of US 191 across the Utah state line into Arizona near Mexican Water, ending at US 66/I-40 in Chambers. [27] In 1982, US 60 was truncated between the Colorado River in California to I-10 in Brenda . [ 28 ]
Arizona State Route 51 (SR 51), also known as the Piestewa Freeway, is a numbered state highway in Phoenix, Arizona. It connects Interstate 10 and Loop 202 just outside Downtown Phoenix with Loop 101 on the north side of Phoenix, making it one of the area's major freeways .