Arizona Secures $26M for One other Portion of I-11 from Phoenix to Las Vegas

A 4.5-mile stretch of Arizona’s U.S. 93 is getting upgraded in preparation for its future transition to Interstate 11.

Additions to the freeway in Wickenburg will consist of 8-foot shoulders and broadband conduit, a two-lane frontage avenue, a southbound two-lane bridge over railroad tracks and a sleek roundabout at the intersection of U.S. 93 and SR 89. The work will be funded by $26 million from the federal Infrastructure Investment and Jobs regulation.

The funding furthers the disclose’s aim of constructing a 280-mile multi-use Interstate 11 hall stretching from Nogales, shut to the border with Mexico, to Wickenburg, which lies northwest of Phoenix. U.S. 93 is the principle route connecting Phoenix and Las Vegas.

“This funding will invent a trusty disagreement for Wickenburg and rob us one step nearer to connecting Phoenix and Las Vegas by job of Interstate 11,” said U.S. Senator Mark Kelly of Arizona. “These enhancements will again minimize traffic, assemble jobs, and boost financial opportunities for future years aid. Thanks to the bipartisan infrastructure regulation, we’re taking predominant steps to be particular Arizona’s infrastructure meets the calls for of our growing communities.”

Arizona DOT has already invested in widening and upgrading utterly different portions of Interstate 11. Work on a sleek plot-to-plot traffic interstate between Interstate 40 and U.S. 93, with a imprint value of $106 million, began in July and is scheduled to be done in early 2027. One other $80 million mission to widen a 4-mile stretch of U.S. 93 north of Wikieup is decided to birth up in January and pause in late 2026.

A $55 million mission to widen a utterly different 5-mile stretch of U.S. 93 in Wickenburg modified into done this month.

ADOT says its total investments in upgrading U.S. 93 over the final numerous years from Wickenburg to the Hoover Dam own imprint on the self-discipline of $500 million.