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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.
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]
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.
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 road continues northbound to an intersection with Butte Ave, at a traffic light, where the highway turns east and passes the Pinal County Governmental Complex, it terminates at the junction with State Route 79 at the intersection of Butte Ave. and Pinal Parkway Avenue. It is the only state business loop in the state of Arizona.
State Route 77 (SR 77) is a 253.93-mile (408.66-kilometre) long state highway in Arizona that traverses much of the state's length, stretching from its southern terminus at a junction with I-10 in Tucson to its northern terminus with BIA Route 6 at the Navajo Nation boundary just north of I-40.