New lanes open to motorists as part of I-10 Broadway Curve Improvement Project
The I-10 Broadway Curve Improvement Project is one step closer to completion after new lanes on the highway recently opened, transportation officials announced Wednesday.
New lanes have opened as part of the I-10 Broadway Curve Improvement Project. (ADOT Photo)
(ADOT Photo)
PHOENIX — The I-10 Broadway Curve Improvement Project is one step closer to completion after new lanes on the highway recently opened, transportation officials announced Wednesday.
The additional lanes now in service are on eastbound Interstate 10 from Interstate 17 to Baseline Road and westbound I-10 from US 60 to 32nd Street, according to the Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT).
Each direction of the highway in the project area has six travel lanes, up from four, as a result of the completed construction.
What construction is left for the I-10 Broadway Curve Improvement Project
The project, billed as the most expansive in ADOT history, is expected to be finished by the spring after getting underway in the fall of 2021.
The lane widening was the latest step in the project, but more major work needs to be completed.
An extra high occupancy vehicle (HOV) lane in both directions of the 11-mile project are expected to open in March.
Also next month, crews are scheduled to complete construction on the I-10/State Route 143 interchange by wrapping up work on the HOV flyover ramps that connect the two highways.
The project is expected to cost more than $800 million. It has been funded by the half-cent county sales tax earmarked for transportation projects that was extended in the most recent election, with additional funding coming from the Federal Highway Administration.
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I sure am glad you were not here to vote in 1985.The old theory of don't build it and they won't come is idiotic and time has showed FALSE. Public transportation works great in a city hub environment. Hades I used to commute in to the Chicago Loop from the burbs. But Chicago HAS a city hub. Transit works great in a "bicycle spoke like city". If anything the damn light rail should have been built along our freeways and used park n rides. After all freeways carry most of our commuters so why not have transit where the cars and people go? Phoenix is a bunch of huge suburbs with hot spots for working and playing sprawled out everywhere. A 30 minute car ride or 1/2 a day on a bus. Common sense. Public transportation is a necessity but NOT the Utopia you claim.
Saying that from 85....
elmwood park 77.
Thank you for making my point that the city (and suburbs) were poorly designed with an old-fashioned (1950s), car-centric mentality.