Sedona AZ (February 9, 2018) – Motorists traveling eastbound on Arizona Interstate 10 west of downtown Phoenix should allow extra travel time and plan ahead to avoid a weekend-long closure as part of work to reconstruct ramps between 51st and 67th avenues for construction on the Loop 202 South Mountain Freeway.

Eastbound I-10 will close between 59th and 43rd avenues from 10 p.m. Friday, February 9, to 5:00 a.m. Sunday, February 11. Motorists will need to exit at 59th Avenue and can take Van Buren Street or McDowell Road before re-entering I-10 at 43rd Avenue.

The eastbound I-10 on-ramps at 75th, 67th and 59th avenues will be closed as well to help reduce traffic backups.
To avoid delays on I-10, motorists should consider taking alternate routes, including the Loop 101 (Agua Fria Freeway) west of Interstate 17, or exiting I-10 sooner and taking local streets to re-enter past the closure point.

During the weekend closure, travel lanes will be shifted and crews will place temporary concrete barrier, which is needed for the extended closure of the I-10 eastbound on-ramp at 51st Avenue (from Saturday, February 10, through March 17).

In order to build the Loop 202/I-10 interchange, several I-10 ramps -must be removed and reconstructed to tie into the wider I-10 that will include connecting ramps to and from the South Mountain Freeway when it opens late 2019.
Long-term and permanent closures of existing on-and-off ramps are necessary between 51st and 67th avenues until new access roads are completed by fall 2018.

The I-10 westbound off-ramp at 51st Avenue remains closed through March 3, 2018.

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