Tucson, Arizona (KGUN) — If you’re a frustrated driver, there are a few things you can look forward to. It’s a five-year plan that ADOT just approved.

The Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) has approved $571 million over five years for projects such as highway expansion and interchange improvements across the state.

One of the approved projects near the Phoenix area will provide additional funding to expand Interstate 17 in the Valley North near Anthem. The project will begin in 2022 and will continue to add lanes along Interstate 17 between Anthem Way and Sunset Point.

Another project approved is a $400 million expansion of Interstate 10 between Ring 202 and State Route 387 in the southwestern part of the valley.

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 the project for the duration of the five-year program.”

In northern Arizona, projects approved include widening State Route 260 and an interchange between Interstate 40 and Route 93.

“Additionally, the plan will invest more than $2.5 billion in pavement maintenance projects across Arizona over five years to improve 400 lane miles of pavement from good, poor to good condition,” ADOT said in a release. said in

Southern Arizona Project

At Classic Industries, we love cars and have repaired many that didn’t survive the 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 of ADOT’s five-year upgrades is approaching Tucson shops.

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 the Country Club Road Interchange.

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 is pouring more than $33 million in local, state, and federal funding into runway improvements at Tucson International Airport.