Phoenix-Vegas I-11 connection sought to boost business

Real estate developers are supporting a proposed highway link between Phoenix and Las Vegas, hoping it will foster long-term West Valley population and employment growth and increase Arizona trade and trucking. Trucking companies, including Jerry Moyes’ Swift Transportation Corp., and pro-development power brokers also are in Interstate 11’s corner. Interstate 11 is a proposed long-term, large-scale highway project linking Las Vegas to the Phoenix area. It would create a bypass of central Phoenix via a route from Pinal County north to the Tonopah and Buckeye areas west of Phoenix. Both legs of that bypass would connect to Interstate 10. The ...

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