The Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) announced that no mainline freeway closures are scheduled in the Phoenix area this weekend, Dec. 12-15. Information about scheduled lane closures or other restrictions is available at www.azdot.gov/additional-restrictions.
In addition, drivers will notice more room for northbound I-17 traffic using the busy exit to Loop 303 and Sonoran Desert Drive in north Phoenix.
As part of an ongoing ramp widening project, the Arizona Department of Transportation has opened a second lane leading into and along the northbound I-17 exit at Loop 303.
The new exit lane is designed to ease traffic backups, especially during afternoon rush hours.
Crews last night finished lane striping at the Loop 303 exit. Temporary work zone barrier walls were removed earlier this week.
The $1.3 million project is being done ahead of a larger project starting next year that will construct direct freeway-to-freeway ramps at the I-17/Loop 303 interchange. That improvement, which also will widen Loop 303 between I-17 and 51st Avenue, is the first project funded under Proposition 479 approved by Maricopa County voters and implemented by the Maricopa Association of Governments (MAG).
Proposition 479 funding includes a regional half-cent sales tax for transportation improvement projects in the metro Phoenix area.
