Phoenix Freeways

The Phoenix city has plenty of freeways that connect several parts of the city with the other cities. The freeways connect the city to the other cities in Arizona through a large system of roadways. The metropolitan area of Phoenix city in the U.S.A has one of the county's biggest, most efficiently maintained and one of the fastest growing freeway systems. The system boasts of over 1,500 miles calculated as lane miles. This is in fact a wonderful feat for a city like Phoenix.

The Phoenix city lacked any kind of public transit system besides the bus service prior to the year 2008. The Phoenix Metropolitan Area as a whole has remained a very car dependent city, with its first freeway opening as early as the year 1958; this is in fact an year preceding most other cities in the USA. This fact coupled with the fact that there was adequate funding to move along with the projects made the city a model for others to follow.

The main backbone of the Phoenix freeways system is the factor of the three major freeways that it has namely the interstate 10, the Interstate 17, and U.S.A Route 60 freeway. The Interstate 10 is a well maintained freeway, this being a transcontinental route that can take a person between California and Florida, is the most highly traveled of all freeways in the Valley of the Sun.

The Interstate 17 runs down the center of the Arizona state. The freeway connects the Phoenix main city with Sedona, Prescott and the Grand Canyon. U.S.A Route 60 spans most of the country, but it is the only access controlled freeway for a few short routes.

The Phoenix freeways are primarily funded by locally collected sales tax more than federal money, so there are no newer freeways that are given state route names as opposed to it being given the traditional interstate designation. Phoenix is probably the largest city in the United States of America that does not have a 3-digit interstate freeway system.

The transportation taxes for the Phoenix freeways at the state level expired in 2006 and consequently a completely revived Proposition named and was put before the voters of Maricopa County in year 2004, the system was brought to a normal growth phase soon after this and is growing ever since. The freeway and road system continues to serve the citizens of the Phoenix city and also visitors who travel to Phoenix.