Federal judge won’t stop freeway, opponents to appeal

Screen Shot 2016-08-20 at 9.58.35 AMBy Paul Maryniak Ahwatukee Foothills News

A federal judge Friday rejected an effort by an Ahwatukee citizens group and the Gila River Indian Community to stop the controversial South Mountain Freeway.

In a 35-page opinion, U.S. District Judge Diane J. Humetewa said the tribe and Protect Arizona’s Resources and Children failed to prove the freeway posed a threat to children’s health as the result of increase air pollution or that it threatened land on South Mountain considered sacred by Native Americans.

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