I am taking some time off of work today to go to the valley and get my hair done. I talk about that more on my Justin Germino personal blog, but I also wanted to talk about driving to the valley. Unfortunately there is not very many routes from Casa Grande, Arizona to Tempe, Arizona. There is one freeway the I-10, and if you are on this freeway and there is an accident that closes the freeway ahead of you. You are stuck in traffic for hours, literally this one freeway you take for about 50 miles between the two cities and there is an alternate route, but once you pass the first 3 exits on the freeway, you have a gap of like 10 miles with no exits. This is because the freeway passes through Indian Reservation. If there is any accidents in this ten mile stretch, then you are just hosed.
I was stuck one night from 7pm until almost 11pm because of a crash on the I-10, and on another incident we travelled 1 hour in traffic just for the policy to force everyone to turn around and drive another 45 minutes back to valley for a detour.
The Cities really need to build another freeway alternative or something.
-Dragon Blogger
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Tags: Accidents, arizona, casa grande, Detour, Freeway, I-10, Interstate, phoenix, Road Congestion, tempe, traffic
October 2nd, 2008 at 8:47 am
We lived in AZ for 5 years and I absolutely despised I-10. There are definite traps you want to avoid, but sometimes you can’t. I feel your pain.
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