That damn construction seemed like it lasted ten years, but I think it was only six or seven...I think.
Nearly every day, I felt like that character in the movie "Falling Down"...
Posted on 08/02/2021 12:40:51 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Starting next week, billboards, social media, television and print media will carry messages urging thousands of Valley motorists, including those in the West Valley, to prepare for four years of disruptions in their driving routines.
It’s not exactly Armageddon that the Arizona Department of Transportation will be heralding, but it certainly won’t be a walk in the park either, especially for car and truck traffic on I-10.
West Valley motorists who need to get to the other side of the county or Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport can expect significant increases in traffic as motorists try to evade the inevitable tie-ups that will be caused by the I-10 Broadway Curve Improvement Project.
“There’s no way to sugarcoat it,” said ADOT spokeswoman Kim Noetzel, who, as an Ahwatukee resident, is bracing for the project. “It’s going to be impactful.”
Seven years in the planning, the work is ready to begin as crews scrape the asphalt along 11 miles of Interstate 10 between the junction of the San Tan and South Mountain freeways and I-17 near Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport.
Motorists will soon start feeling the impact later this year as work picks up steam on a project aimed at preventing virtually round-the-clock rush-hour gridlock on I-10 in the heart of Maricopa County.
“When the first phase of construction begins this summer, drivers should prepare for weekend closures on I-10 and U.S. 60,” ADOT spokeswoman Alexandra Albert said in a virtual briefing last week for Tempe residents. “And the reason for that is over the weekends, they’ll be closing down to remove the rubberized asphalt that exists on the roadway today on all of the travel lanes.”
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Hahaha that was EXACTLY what was in my head...:)
I guess if you live there you get used to it...it’s that “dry heat”...!
lol, that was pretty much it. It was their job to fix this freeway, so it was shop talk for them. Then they asked me what was so funny about it because I was busting up. I told them what was causing those. But it couldn’t be helped. Even with a long 4x8 wood block under the jack to distribute the weight it still punched a hole in the road the size of the block.
That damn construction seemed like it lasted ten years, but I think it was only six or seven...I think.
Nearly every day, I felt like that character in the movie "Falling Down"...
You ain’t seen nuthin’ ‘til you’ve seen Tucson and surrounding Pima County roads. The Rats rule that roost and it’s very obvious that roads are not a priority.
Ca has special binding oil. It is environmentally friendly again. And doesn’t work even without the rubber. But the rubber made it even 20 times worse.
I’m an inmate at Maricopa Jail in Pinal County. We have 1 road into and out of the Valley, and it’s 2 lanes in either direction, complete with several stoplights, which is always fun on a “highway.” We’re growing like crazy out here, but the land around us is tribal and it’s been difficult to get them and ADOT to agree on a plan for transportation relief. Maybe we’ll be next tho.
It’s equity. You all deserve bad roads because they’re also bad in Russia and Guatemala.
Just like canceling Keystone and approving Nordstream II.
Yikes!
BOOKbump
In the very early 1970’s I attended a meeting in Phoenix about the future of transportation and specifically freeways in Phoenix. Most of the city leaders were there. There was a group of folks who said, “If you don’t build freeways the traffic will go somewhere else and not come to Phoenix.” I remember looking to the fellow next to me and saying, “Where do these people come from?”
The author should drive L.A. freeways for a while - after that the Phoenix system seems miraculously clean, uncrowded, and well-designed.
Fortunately, I seldom leave the Northeast Valley, so I have little need to drive the affected section of I-10.
The Broadway Curve has always been a pinch point, at least since 1981 when I moved here from Southern California.
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