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Rapid
growth prompts quickened construction
by
Jennifer Krahe
NORTH
VALLEY – Dove Valley Road will connect to Interstate 17
fifteen years earlier than originally planned. Due to the
cooperative efforts of the City of Phoenix, Maricopa Association
of Governments (MAG) and the Arizona Department of Transportation,
an I‑17/ Dove Valley Road interchange and the widening
of I‑17 from Loop 101 north to Carefree Highway will
be completed concurrently and far ahead of schedule.
Ian
Satter, spokes‑person for ADOT, cited “extensive communication”
as the impetus for accelerating the time line of the project,
deemed necessary to cope with rapid development and growing
traffic congestion between Happy Valley Road and Carefree
Highway.
“I am encouraged
about MAG, ADOT and the city working together to get the I‑17/Dove
Valley
Road interchange built as quickly as possible,” Phoenix District
2 Councilwoman Peggy Neely said. |
