Tucson, Arizona (KGUN) — If you’re a frustrated driver and you’re not, there are some things to look forward to. It’s a five-year plan that ADOT just approved.

You may find a way to solve traffic jams and bad roads.

At Classic Industries, we love cars and have repaired many that have struggled on rough roads. Mechanic Nathan Dominguez thinks the idea of ​​making highways wider and smoother is great.

“By making the roads a little wider, more traffic can come and go, less ignorance, less traffic growth, and it will be much easier for people to cross the roads and so on. ”

One upgrade of ADOT’s five-year plan is just around the corner.

Smooth out the two-mile I-10 from Valencia to Alvernon and widen it from two to three lanes each way.

Other $817 million highlights planned for southern Arizona include $185 million for the I-10-Kino Transit Interchange and $156 million for Country Club Road. exchange.

While it may not be part of your daily drive, many drivers here appreciate being part of a five-year plan to extend the final narrow section of I-10 between Pima and Maricopa counties. I might.

ADOT’s Garin Groff said, “One of the biggest elements of this five-year program is the expansion of the I-10 between Casa Grande and Phoenix from four to six lanes. It’s a project that we hope to start at the Gila River Bridge later this year and then continue to work on projects during the next five years of the program.”

Cochise County’s high-profile projects include paving a total of about eight miles of State Route 90 between I-10 and Sierra Vista.

And the “T” in ADOT doesn’t just stand for ground transportation, the five-year plan has more than $33 million in local, state and federal funding to improve the runway at Tucson International Airport. increase.