A three-year, $34 million project to surface about 115 miles of Phoenix-area freeways
with rubberized asphalt is working toward a smoother ride for motorists and quieter
neighborhoods for those who live adjacent to the roads.
 The Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) announced
plans for the project in December 2002 and began to resurface the first 21 miles
of freeways in September 2003.
The first areas to receive the “quiet pavement” were on the Loop 101/Agua Fria freeway
from Union Hills Drive to 31st Avenue, and on the Pima Freeway from 21st Avenue
to Tatum Boulevard and from Frank LloydWright Boulevard to Mountain View Road. SR 51 was
resurfaced from Shea Boulevard to Bell Road. The entire Loop 101 and SR 51
freeways plus sections of Interstate 10, Interstate 17 and the Loop 202 Red Mountain
and Santan freeways also will receive new rubberized asphalt surfaces over the next
2 ˝ years.
ADOT has already applied rubberized asphalt to sections of I-17, Loop 101, Loop
202, SR 51 and the US 60 Superstition Freeway. SR51 will receive a rubberized asphalt
overlay from I-10 to Shea Boulevard after the on-going improvement project is completed. |
