ADOT - Wed September 09, 2020
State Projects Earn America's Transportation Awards
Three of the state's major freeway and highway projects have earned regional awards in a national transportation competition that focuses on efforts to strengthen communities, improve the quality of life and foster a more efficient economy....
ADOT - Mon December 30, 2019
Native Plants Return Along South Mountain Freeway
After spending time in temporary nurseries, more than 1,000 saguaro cactuses, palo verde trees and other native plants removed from the path of the Loop 202 South Mountain Freeway are now being used to grace the 22-mile corridor....
Arizona Department of Transportation - Tue July 16, 2019
Crews Set Final Girder for Loop 202 SMF
After construction on 40 bridges over more than two years, workers have placed the final girder for the Loop 202 South Mountain Freeway, the Arizona Department of Transportation's single largest-ever freeway construction project....
Arizona Department of Transportation - Tue June 18, 2019
Last Girder Set for South Mountain Freeway Interchange in West Phoenix
Two years after construction began on an interchange connecting Interstate 10 and the Loop 202 South Mountain Freeway, crews have placed the final bridge girders needed for this huge Arizona Department of Transportation project in west Phoenix....
Arizona Department of Transportation - Tue June 18, 2019
ADOT SMF Update: Construction Progresses Along 59th Avenue
With all bridge girders in place, frontage road construction under way and an overpass built over railroad tracks, among other milestones, Loop 202 South Mountain Freeway construction continues advancing along the 59th Avenue alignment south of Interstate 10 (Papago Freeway) in west Phoenix....
Chuck Harvey – CEG Correspondent - Tue April 23, 2019
South Mountain Freeway on Track for 2020 Completion
The Loop 202, Arizona's South Mountain Freeway, will add 22 mi. of freeway to the existing Phoenix metropolitan transportation system, easing traffic congestion and connecting the east and west valleys....
Arizona Department of Transportation - Tue March 26, 2019
Final Bridge Girders Set on Salt River Segment of SMF
Nearly two years after the first girder was set on Loop 202 South Mountain Freeway, the last support beam has been installed for the Dobbins Road interchange, marking the final girder placed on the Salt River segment of the freeway in the Laveen area....
Arizona Department of Transportation - Tue January 29, 2019
Driving Surfaces Complete on Longest SMF Bridges
The largest structures on the Arizona Department of Transportation's Loop 202 South Mountain Freeway project are nearly complete, with crews finishing the concrete decks of two half-mile-long bridges that will carry traffic over the Salt River in the growing southwest Valley....
Arizona Department of Transportation - Tue November 06, 2018
ADOT Sets Final Girders on South Mountain Freeway's Salt River Bridges
Two hundred and ninety-two. That's the number of concrete girders installed on two Loop 202 South Mountain Freeway bridges spanning the Salt River between Broadway Road and Southern Avenue in the southwest Valley....
Arizona Department of Transportation - Tue July 17, 2018
Disadvantaged Business Enterprises Help Build South Mountain Freeway
The team building the Loop 202 South Mountain Freeway, Arizona's largest single highway project ever, has awarded more than $100 million in contracts to local small businesses run by socially and economically disadvantaged groups, including minorities and women....
