By Arizona Department of Transportation
The Arizona Department of Transportation is preparing to move forward with a project in 2025 that will reconstruct and widen Interstate 10 between Kino Parkway and Country Club Road southeast of downtown Tucson.
The State Transportation Board awarded the design-build project to Sundt-Jacobs. At $600M, it will be the largest highway construction project in southern Arizona history.
The project will include:
- Widening I-10 to three lanes in each direction between Kino Parkway and Alvernon Way, and to four lanes in each direction west of Kino Parkway;
- Reconstructing the interchange at Kino Parkway;
- Removing the existing interchange Palo Verde Road;
- Constructing a new interchange on Country Club Road that will provide access for traffic that currently uses the interchange at Palo Verde Road to allow for safer traffic movements to and from I-10;
- Constructing a new westbound on-ramp at the Alvernon Way interchange, and
- Construct an I-10 undercrossing to connect the North and South Kino Sports Complex.
Construction is expected to begin in mid-2025 and continue through 2028.
The project will be the first to result from a study completed in 2020 that recommended how to best improve mobility along a roughly 10-mile stretch of I-10 from I-19 to Kolb Road. The study also identified an alignment for an extension of State Route 210 (Barraza Aviation Parkway) along Alvernon Way that will connect I-10 to downtown Tucson.
ADOT is planning to share more detailed design plans for the corridor and provide an opportunity for the public to speak with members of the design team at a community open house event in early 2025.
For more information, please visit I-10KinotoCountryClub. (Source)
