by Walt G Loop 202 promotes regional travel--Ahwatukee/Chandler to downtown Phoenix and northwest to southeast between Chandler/Ahwatukee and Laveen/Avondale. What's needed is shorter home to work trips by locating employment centers in Ahwatukee (abandoned golf course), in Laveen and utilitzing proposed employment centers in West Phoenix (I-10 @ 27th Ave. & 99th Ave.). With objective of shorter home-to-work trips, a parkway could be built along the south leg, and increase to a freeway in Laveen, but veer west at S.R. 30 (to Buckeye) with legs to I-10 at existing interchanges and a leg to Loop 101 interchange. This would facilate employment centers in Laveen for shorter home-to-work trips

by Louis L1 The 202 should have been completed long ago! The shortsighted and selfish interests who have stalled the project are the ones to blame for the increased costs. If you built or bought along the corridor that was established and publicized in 1985, then shame on you! You refused to listen to and accept the facts. The rest of Maricopa county should not have to pay for your ignorance. The 202 will relieve congestion on the I-10 and open both the lower west side and the southeast valley to future economic development. Phoenix already has severe traffic problems, and none of us will be the last persons to move to the Valley of the Sun. The time to deal with it is now!

by Lauren A3 South Mountain could easily be saved by listing it on the National Register as a Landmark.
The AZDOT South Mountain Draft Environmental Impact Statement is now available at some libraries or at this website: https://www.azdot.gov/SouthMountainFreeway

by VonGoblin It's difficult for me to understand why we need to promote further sprawl. Building the loop will just ensure more of the same when what we really need to do is improve our current built environment. We already have street after street in Central Phoenix riddled with cracks and holes that are especially uncomfortable when one is on a bicycle.

by Lauren A3 Here is a link to a study the Sierra Club did on the health hazards of highways.
http://www.sierraclub.org/sprawl/report04_highwayhealth/

by Lauren A3 The 202--or any more freeways that put more cars and trucks on the road--is also going to cause long term respiratory problems for our children (especially those in Ahwatukee). Studies have been published by the Sierra Club (2004) and "The Lancet" (2007 - UK's premier medical research journal although the study was on USA children) that discuss health hazards. "The concentrations of several pollutants are raised near major freeways. Daytime concentrations of black carbon, ultrafine particulate, and other exhaust pollutants have reported to be high...within 500m of a freeway..." Our children are already suffering. Need we make it worse?

by Morgan M1 Not building the 202, agreeing with everyone else, this would create more urban sprawl, more pollution, more spending time in your car. We need to get people to use their cars less and using more of public transportation. Like using at money and put it into spreading more of the light rail.

by Sean S7 I wonder if our elected officials are paying attention to the comparative popularity between this idea and the associated counter-idea.

by Nicole R11 Where freeways are built, then homes are built. Freeways encourage a vivacious appetite for more more more. The people who moved out to west Ahwatukee, moved there knowing their freeway situation.

by Bob D3 This project made it onto the 50 worst transportation projects in the United States:
http://content.sierraclub.org/beyondoil/content/smart-choices-less-traffic

by Haley R I agree with this idea 100%!!!! Phoenix DOES NOT need more freeways, it needs a much better bicycle/pedestrian infrastructure so we can encourage people to use that INSTEAD of their cars for local business/transport. Cars, in general as they are currently mostly running on gasoline, are a rather filthy, destructive, non-sustainable invention. However, Bicycles and Public Transportation are, independently and inter-dependently, a fabulous, comfortable way to get around the whole city, and I highly encourage the city to expand their minds and capacities for IMPROVING this system, rather than WASTING tons of money on a useless freeway system that destroys indigenous communities, and adds to the already deteriorating air quality in Phoenix. PLEASE SAY NO TO THE 202!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

by kharla S I agree with you, there are a lot of other things that the money could be used for,like helping imancated childern or helping homless shelters.

by Eugene H I would have moved the 202 to the West to connect near 303. My reasoning is based on our international treaty that is going to allow foreign truckers to use our highways to go to Canada. I was at my wife's office, a foriegn trucker had been stopped for something by a motorcycle police. This trucker driver's experience was so low that the motorcycle policeman MOVED THE TRUCK FOR HIM! Hazardous material in foreign trucks going through our area. No interest in that at all. Let them bypass the center of the city.