By Paul Maryniak | Ahwatukee Foothills News
There may be many things this year will be known for, but one thing is a certainty: In Ahwatukee, 2019 will be the Year of the Freeway.
If the Arizona Department of Transportation and South Mountain Freeway designer-builder Connhect202Partners figured accurately, motorists a year from now will be tooling along the eight-lane freeway instead of four-lane Pecos Road.
And Pecos Road will be no more than a memory, although cyclists and runners by then may also have a new multiuse path running along the freeway.
The $1.9 billion, 22-mile freeway – ADOT’s most expensive freeway project in history – will connect the Chandler and West 59th Avenue interchanges on I-10, offering motorists and an estimated 140,000 trucks a day to find an alternative to the congested freeway segment around downtown Phoenix.
