{"id":648,"date":"2006-11-17T09:09:28","date_gmt":"2006-11-17T16:09:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=648"},"modified":"2006-11-17T09:13:17","modified_gmt":"2006-11-17T16:13:17","slug":"untying-the-loop-202-knot-if-only-they-let-me-draw-the-freeway-maps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/648\/untying-the-loop-202-knot-if-only-they-let-me-draw-the-freeway-maps\/","title":{"rendered":"Untying the Loop 202 knot: If only they let me draw the freeway maps . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"

Our friends in the Gila River Indian Community have elected to negotiate on the location of the Loop 202 Freeway<\/a>:<\/p>\n

In a surprise about-face, the Gila River Indian Community will talk to state and federal officials about the prospect of building the South Mountain Freeway on reservation land, possibly sparing hundreds of homes in Ahwatukee Foothills.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If this is a surprise to you, you don’t understand the economics of casinos. The tribe built one of its three casinos on the route of the planned freeway, and they won’t reap the anticipated windfall if the freeway is not built.<\/p>\n

The Loop 202 was originally planned to run on Pecos Road, at the Southern edge of the Ahwatukee Foothills neighborhood. Bonehead developers built very expensive homes very near the freeway’s right of way, and owners of very expensive homes are the very nimblest of NIMBYists. You can hardly blame highway planners for casting an envious eye into the mostly-empty Gila River Reservation.<\/p>\n

From west of Phoenix to east and south of Phoenix, from the I-10 to the I-10, the Loop 202 is intended to serve as a reliever freeway, skirting traffic around<\/i> Central Phoenix. If we view the road strictly as a local route for Ahwatukee Foothills, then Pecos Road in its current configuration is more than adequate. In other words, the reliever function can easily be split from the local traffic problem in Ahwatukee Foothills.<\/p>\n

That being so, I like this route better:<\/p>\n

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The green line is the currently-planned route for the Loop-202 south from the I-10 west of Phoenix. Everyone on this route wants this freeway, the sooner the better.<\/p>\n

The red line is the currently-planned route for the Loop-202 continuing east to the I-10 south of Phoenix. Virtually everyone on this route doesn’t<\/i> want the freeway to be built.<\/p>\n

The bright red dots are the locations of the three Gila River Indian Casinos, vast magnetic cash cows.<\/p>\n

The blue line is my suggestion for an alternate route for the Loop 202. It wouldn’t connect with the SR-202 on the east side of the I-10, but it would be a whale of a traffic reliever. In the long run, the Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our friends in the Gila River Indian Community have elected to negotiate on the location of the Loop 202 Freeway: In a surprise about-face, the Gila River Indian Community will talk to state and federal officials about the prospect of building the South Mountain Freeway on reservation land, possibly sparing hundreds of homes in Ahwatukee […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-648","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-marketing","7":"category-real-estate","9":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":596,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/596\/how-do-you-sneak-up-on-a-freeway\/","url_meta":{"origin":648,"position":0},"title":"How do you sneak up on a Freeway . . . ?","author":"Greg Swann","date":"November 3, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Reflecting upon today's Arizona Republic column, here is a story I've been sitting on all week:Work is under way to build a bridge on Cotton Lane and expand the road from Maricopa County 85 to Estrella Parkway. 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