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TRANSPORTATION
Drivers face restrictions on US 60, Loop 101 this weekend
(ADOT)
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INDEPENDENT NEWSMEDIA
Freeway projects in Tempe will pose the most problems for drivers this week.
Here is what state transportation officials have planned from Friday night, April 26, until Monday morning, April 29:
Eastbound US 60 will be closed between I-10 and Mill Avenue in Tempe from 10 p.m. Friday to 4 a.m. Monday for the I-10 Broadway Curve improvement project.
Eastbound I-10 will be narrowed to three lanes between 40th Street and Baseline Road. All ramps from I-10 to eastbound US 60 will be closed along with the westbound I-10 on-ramp at Baseline Road. Detours: Consider traveling to eastbound Loop 202 in Chandler to northbound Loop 101 to access US 60 beyond the closure. Note: The eastbound I-10 on-ramp at 40th Street will be closed from 8 p.m. Friday to 4 a.m. Monday. Drivers should consider using the eastbound on-ramp at Broadway Road, according to the Arizona Department of Transportation.
Southbound Loop 101 will be closed between US 60 and Guadalupe Road in Tempe from 9 p.m. Friday to 5 a.m. Monday for pavement improvement work.
Southbound Loop 101 on-ramps at University Drive also will be closed. Both US 60 ramps to southbound Loop 101 will be closed. Detour: Consider exiting ahead of the closure and using the southbound Price frontage road before connecting with southbound Loop 101 beyond the closure. Other local routes include southbound Dobson Road or McClintock Drive, transportation officials said.
North- and southbound 32nd Street will be closed between I-10 and Elwood Street near Sky Harbor Airport from 8 p.m. Friday to 4 a.m. Monday for ramp reconstruction.
The westbound I-10 off-ramp at 32nd Street will closed this weekend.The eastbound I-10 off-ramp at 32nd Street remains closed until June for reconstruction. Detours: Consider alternate routes via 24th or 40th streets. Note: Westbound I-10 will be narrowed to two lanes overnight between Broadway Road and 48th Street from 7 p.m. Sunday to 4 a.m. Monday. The westbound I-10 on-ramp at Broadway Road also will be closed overnight.
The northbound Loop 101 off-ramp at Cactus Road is scheduled to be closedforapproximatelytwo months starting at 1 a.m. Monday for reconstruction as part of a freeway widening project.
Detour: Alternate routes include exiting northbound Loop 101 at Shea Boulevard before using northbound 92nd Street or northbound Hayden Road to Cactus Road. Note: The northbound Loop 101 on-ramp at Shea Boulevard remains closed until mid-June for reconstruction.
We’d like to invite our readers to submit their civil comments on this issue. Email AZOpinions@iniusa.org.
