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East of Tucson, I‑10 parallels and, in some cases, overlies old US 80 to Benson, and was originally cosigned as US 80 and SR 86. The section of I-10 from Valencia Road to Rita Road was the first construction project in the state of Arizona funded by the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956. Construction began in 1957 and was completed in 1960.
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).
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.
How long does it take a large desert tortoise to get to the other side of a southern Arizona highway? It’s still a mystery, after a state Department of Public Safety trooper recently helped ...
The road headed north toward Tempe to U.S. Route 80. [14] Between 1951 and 1958, the road was extended south to its current terminus at SR 84; at this time, I-10 had still not been built, nor had the route become a state highway. [15] By 1971, I-10 was finished through the south and east edges of the Phoenix area. [16]
Interstate 10 (I-10) is the southernmost transcontinental highway in the Interstate Highway System of the United States. It is the fourth-longest Interstate in the country at 2,460.34 miles (3,959.53 km), following I-90, I-80, and I-40. It was part of the originally planned Interstate Highway network that was laid out in 1956, and its last ...
The final part was to construct the El Mirage Road interchange. This began in February 2015 and was complete in summer 2016. This marked the first time the entire Loop 303 between I-10 and I-17 was fully upgraded to freeway standards. [3] In February 2016, construction began on the south half of the I-10 and Loop 303 stack interchange.
SR 587 is a 6.10-mile (9.82 km) highway connecting I-10 with SR 87 south of the Phoenix metropolitan area. The entire route is located within the Gila River Indian Reservation. The southern terminus of SR 587 is located at exit 175 of I-10 south of Sweetwater. The highway heads north from this interchange towards Chandler.