Some Phoenix, Tucson, Vegas notes.
- From: James W Anderson <jander7@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2007 20:45:27 -0800 (PST)
Here are some notes from a recent run I made down there, due to a
funeral.
Vegas: I-515 has high-mast lighting now north of the I-215/Lake Mead
interchange. Ditto for I-15 about a half mile either side of the
Cheyenne Road SPUI. Unique long ramp (maybe a mile long?) for SB
I-515 to Lake Mead Road, makes left-side entrance into Lake Mead Road
where the lanes from I-215 become EB Lake Mead/NV 146 at this point.
US-95 widening still incomplete south of Searchlight. They are
widening it within Searchlight itself, two narrow lanes with jersey
barrier leaning against a building in one spot.
I-40 has two bridge projects with traffic switches on at least one
between Kingman and Flagstaff. Also a third lane exists for several
miles eastbound in a couple of places.
I-40/I-17 interchange in Flagstaff has a huge flyover from WB I-40 to
SB I-17. This is now a huge snakepit interchange with some other
stuff off of it on the north side, and you can tell the flyover from
the older ramps by the decorative features on the outside.
I-17 construction: Moving very well, lots of work in the center
divider area. One interchange has the old bridge beside the new one,
the girder 'ribs' are up on that already. SB frontage road under
construction, they will have to move a saguaro that is just inches
from the area that they have graded off to create the frontage road.
I-17 below Loop 101: Much of this needs resurfacing, the rubberized
asphalt has cracked at the expansion joints in the concrete from the
Stack to just north of the Dunlap S-curve.
All freeway connectors appear to now have rubberized asphalt.
Exceptions to this are the Loop 202/Riggs section of I-10, the 202/10
Pecos Road stack, and the I-17 and I-17/Loop 101 stack in the north
Valley.
SR-87 'Beeline Highway': Found out why the rough spot northbound on
the hill north of Slate Creek Hill. They built one side's lanes
(unsure whether northbound or southbound) over a spring that the road
triggered problems on, and ADOT has been trying to find a way to
effectively deal with the spring.
SR-188 south of Pinto Creek. Saw this one coming nearly 40 years ago,
they have straightened this out somewhat, even adding passing lanes in
spots. And just as I thought they would back then as well. Four lanes
last five miles or so into Globe. And five lanes from the railroad
crossing to US-60.
I-10's feeders are complete, they striped in three lanes but when the
mainline is complete they will reduce that to two. Signs at
intersecting roads call I-10 simply 'Freeway'. During morning rush
hour it can take 2-3 cycles at some interchanges to get through them,
frequent road closures under the freeway at night at present. They
are trying to preserve part of unique Miracle Mile (SR-77)
interchange.
The old '84 Truck Stop' is history, looks like they bulldozed that
some time back. That was named for the old SR-84 and 84A numbers that
was used from before I-10 was designated on that route.
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