Several freeway projects are set to ramp up across metro Phoenix in 2026 — including construction funded by Proposition 479, which was approved by Maricopa County voters in 2024.
That project will start in late January. Crews will widen Loop 303 to three lanes in each direction from Interstate 17 west to 51st Avenue. Doug Nintzel is an Arizona Department of Transportation spokesman.
“That will also include work that will create the direct freeway to freeway ramps, connecting I-17 and Loop 303, and that's really important in terms of what drivers have been waiting for in that area," said Nintzel.
At the same time, two projects are expected to make significant headway in the new year.
“That would be Loop 101 being widened west of I-17 and Loop 202 down in the Chandler Gilbert area — that project between the 101 and Val Vista Drive," he said.
Nintzel says those two are expected to be completed in 2027.
Overall, Nintzel says 2025 was a busy year, with several long-awaited freeway construction projects now complete.
“We're talking about the I-10 Broadway Curve project, all those new lanes, the new interchange connecting I-10 and State Route 143, plus I-17 being widened north of the Valley between Anthem and Sunset Point. That includes the project with the Flexlane system," Nintzel said.
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