Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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 ...
As of 2005, the metropolitan area of Phoenix contains one of the nation's largest and fastest growing freeway systems, consisting of over 1,405 lane miles (2,261 lane km). [5] The freeway system is a mix of Interstate, U.S., and state highways which include Interstate 10, Interstate 17, US 60, Loop 101, Loop 202, SR 51, SR 143, and Loop 303.
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 .
Arizona State Route 74 (SR 74), locally known as the Carefree Highway, is a state highway in central Arizona that stretches east to west from its junction with U.S. Route 60 (US 60) just south of Wickenburg to its junction with Interstate 17 (I-17) in North Phoenix.
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.
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 United States Numbered Highway System (U.S. Highway System) was originally approved by the United States Department of Agriculture Joint Board on Interstate Highways on November 11, 1926, and was to be overseen and maintained by the American Association of State Highway Officials (AASHO). [2]
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 .