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Originally Posted by exit2lef
The 303 Freeway already becomes Sonoran Desert Drive east of I-17. It continues as a parkway until it ends at Tatum Boulevard. As suggested, it looks like that road could be continued southeast to meet the 101 at the 64th St. alignment. Most of the route would be through land that is neither developed nor protected at this time.
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Sonoran Desert Parkway actually ends at Cave Creek Rd - between Jomax and Dynamite. The eventual plan is that it would align with Black Mtn Parkway (basically 40th st) and connect to where that currently terminates at Pinnacle Peak. This was done due instead of extending the 303 all the way out to SR-87 as originally proposed - along the Dynamite Rd corridor more or less. (Was strongly opposed by every community along its path.) So this will essentially connect L303 to at least SR-51 by way of a parkway vs freeway. Whether or not they could add additional transition lanes to The L101 E/W from that seems questionable.
In the early 2000s, there was an alternative proposed for I17 that would have extended SR-51 all the way up through the north valley, essentially through the Prescott area and then up to I-40 as an alternative to just adding lanes to 17.
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