I'd argue for widening I-10 and improving the "Buckeye Bypass".
Posted on 05/09/2019 12:49:01 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
The Arizona Department of Transportation has released its first-stage environmental review of a proposed new interstate from the border to north of Phoenix. The agency wants the public to weigh in on the controversial proposal, and is holding public meetings in Tucson and Marana this week.
Three years ago, the state transportation department began evaluating the possibility of a new interstate highway, called I-11, which would connect traffic from the Mexican border to the Nevada border. In 2015 a federal act identified the route as a high-priority corridor eligible for federal funding.
State transportation spokesperson Laura Douglas says her agency and the federal highway administration have determined there will be a need for other transportation options as the so-called "Sun Corridor" continues to grow.
"We're looking at different transportation options in order to move people and goods more efficiently, and that's where we're looking at I-11 in terms of better movement of personal vehicles and commercial vehicles," Douglas says.
After evaluating numerous alternatives, in early April the Arizona Department of Transportation released the environmental impact statement on its recommended path if the project were to be developed. ADOT's preferred route would follow I-19 from Nogales to Sahuarita, then split west, skirt south of San Xavier, then run north in the desert between Three Points and Old Tucson. It would continue up through Avra Valley, west of I-10 until rejoining it around Casa Grande.
"The proposed alternative is a really bad idea," says Carolyn Campbell, executive director of the Coalition for Sonoran Desert Protection, a group of 30 conservation organizations. The coalition, which helped create Pima County's Sonoran Desert Conservation Plan, is opposed to ADOT's proposed I-11 route.
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PING!
So the illegals can get thru faster?.................
It’ll be the “Let Mexico Invade Nevada” Highway.
The new interstate will have express lanes, the tolls for which will be payed for by coyotes and traffickers moving the illegals up the highway.
Because illegals need a straighter shot into Arizona from the border?
Another highway from Mexico into our heartland?
Yeah, what a swell idea. /s
New east-west interstates - go for it, by all means.
North-south, forgedaboutit.
Will they have Car Pool lanes for twelve or more in a car?.....................
O.K. with me as long it’s one way going south....
I'd argue for widening I-10 and improving the "Buckeye Bypass".
Every interstate that originates on the mexican border has resulted in colonization along it’s route. Check out I-5 and I-35 as examples.
Actually it has some logic.
The only North-South interstates between CA and NE is I5 and I25.
I5 goes thru every major city on the West Coast except San Francisco.
I25 goes right thru Denver.
That’s it.
Shipping anything north or south is real problem.
Just turn AZ 95 into the new Interstate. It already runs from San Luis AZ to Nevada. All you have to do is widen it. The only Interstate serving SW AZ is I-8. A North/South interstate through Yuma would help the economies of Yuma County, La Paz County, and Mojave County immensely. We could get rid of the excuse our politicians constantly use to explain why they don’t attempt to attract any business that isn’t a restaurant or retail.
Interestingly when this was presented on KOLD last night it was talked about “as faster way to Vegas”...:^)
I say just widen I-10.
I-11 is not needed South of I-8.
Agree. Most of the route is parallel to I-10.
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