Growth in Pinal County – Major corridors to be planned

The preferred plan, still far in the future, is to have a beltway around the city, tying in Val Vista Boulevard, Montgomery Road and Interstates 8 and 10.

I-10 is now being widened to three lanes in each direction from the Marana area to Pinal Air Park Road, with future work making it three lanes from there to Selma Highway, with some work on I-8 as far west as Henness Road.

The Arizona Department of Transportation has said it has no idea, because of difficulties of negotiating with the Gila River Indian Community, of when there could be three lanes in each direction from Selma Highway to the Chandler area. The agency has said that the widening from Pinal Air Park Road to Selma Highway, with a new interchange at the I-8 junction, is four to five years away.

Meanwhile, Casa Grande has been working on its latest small-area transportation plan, approved in July.

City officials will now ask the City Council to approve two major corridor studies – Val Vista and linking Pinal Avenue to ChuiChu Road.

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