Taxpayer Watch: Speed a Concern on Eastbound I-10 Frontage Road
Posted on: Thursday, 3 November 2005, 09:00 CST
By Tim Ellis
Situation: Janice Trainor says that twice every weekday, in the morning and afternoon, she must fight her way through fast-moving traffic on the eastbound frontage road off Interstate 10 just south of the Prince Road exit to drop off and pick up her children at Flowing Wells High School, 3275 N. Flowing Wells Road.
"People get off the freeway and they're still doing 65,"she said. "Sometimes there are people going faster on the frontage road than people on the freeway."
She thinks the Arizona Department of Transportation failed to reinstall the speed-limit sign on the frontage road after some construction work was done along the road a few years ago.
"I'm concerned that one of these days someone exiting the freeway at 65 will collide with another vehicle," Trainor said.
It's a busy exit, she said, because it's used by people going to and coming from a nearby vehicle emissions testing facility and several other businesses in the area.
Status: Bill Pederson, an ADOTspokesman, says a road-improvement project on that stretch of the frontage road was completed in 2001, but there never were any speed-limit signs in that area.
Members of ADOT's Tucson District staff will meet soon with the department's freeway experts to determine whether speed-limit signs or other signs are needed along that stretch of road, Pederson said.
The speed limit on the road is 45 mph, he said. Neither the Arizona Department of Public Safety nor any Tucson-area law- enforcement agency has expressed any concerns about a speeding problem along the frontage road, Pederson said.
Who's responsible: ADOT's Tucson District traffic-engineering office (620-5411) studies road and traffic conditions to determine appropriate speed limits on state highways and interstates in this area.
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Source: Arizona Daily Star
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