Interstate 40 ( I-40 ) is an east-west Interstate Highway that has a 359.11 mile (577.93 km) section in the US state of Arizona linking parts of California and New Mexico. Sections throughout Arizona are also known as the Purple Heart Trail . It enters Arizona from the west at the intersection of Colorado River southwest of Kingman. It travels east across the northern part of the country linking the cities of Kingman, Ash Fork, Williams, Flagstaff, Winslow, and Holbrook. I-40 continues to New Mexico, heading to Albuquerque. The highway has major intersections with US Route 93 (US 93) at Kingman, the main highway connecting Phoenix and Las Vegas, Nevada and I-17 on Flagstaff, the Interstate connecting Phoenix and Flagstaff.
For most of its routing through Arizona, the I-40 follows the historical alignment of US Route 66. The only exception is the stretch between Kingman and Ash Fork where US 66 takes the smaller, less direct route that now becomes Route 66. The I-40 construction was under way in the 1960s and 1970s and reached a settlement in 1984. With the completion of the I-40 in 1984, the entire US 66 route was bypassed by Interstate Highways which caused its decertification a year later in 1985.
Video Interstate 40 in Arizona
Deskripsi rute
California ke Flagstaff
I-40 enters Arizona from California on a bridge across the Colorado River at Topock in Mohave County. It leads east from Topock and begins curving northwards in Franconia and completes the northward curve in Yucca. The Interstate continues northward until it reaches Kingman. In this city, I-40 has a junction with US 93 at exit 48. US 93 leads northwest from this intersection to Hoover Dam and Las Vegas. The southern US 93 begins running alongside the I-40 as they head eastward through Kingman. Two separate at exit 71 as US 93 headed south toward Phoenix while I-40 headed east toward Flagstaff. I-40 continues eastward, past the town of Seligman and then at Ash Fork, where it meets State Route 89, the main highway leading south to Prescott. Next, pass Williams at exit 165 with SR 64, and head north to Grand Canyon National Park. I-40 continues east to Flagstaff, where it has an intersection with I-17 at exit 195. I-17 heading south from crossing with I-40 to Phoenix.
Flagstaff to New Mexico
East Flagstaff, I-40 heading east-southeast as it passes through the town of Winslow. It continues in this direction until it reaches Holbrook, where it curves toward the northeast. Throughout this stretch, he passes Petrified Forest National Park and continues to the northeast, passes Chambers, and enters Navajo Nation. The highway still continues northeast to the New Mexico border in southwest Gallup, New Mexico as it progresses towards Albuquerque.
Maps Interstate 40 in Arizona
History
With the exception of a stretch between Kingman and Flagstaff, the I-40 immediately replaced the famous US 66 in northern Arizona. If possible, US 66 is upgraded to Interstate standard to become I-40 directly. The exception to this is through the central business districts of cities and towns skipped US 66, and the I-40 should be built as a short cut outside the city. On October 26, 1984, after the last part of I-40 was completed in Williams, US 66 was removed from the Arizona state highway system. The portion passing through non-overlapping cities of I-40 will become an I-40 business circle.
Before U.S. Highway
The road route near the current corridor I-40 in Arizona was first surveyed and built between 1857 and 1859. Lieutenant Edward Beale and his warriors built a path along the 35th parallel to be known as the Wagon Beale Road of Ft. Smith, Arkansas to the Colorado River to serve as a military cart. It was a popular route for immigrants during the 1860s and 1870s until transcontinental railroads were built across northern Arizona in the 1880s. In the early 1900s, the road became part of the National Old Trails Road, transcontinental routes from Baltimore, Maryland to California, and the National Park to Park Highway, a car line connecting the national park to the west.
AS. Route 66
In the 1920s, as a national highway system called the United States Highway Number is being developed, the route through was given the appointment of US Route 60. This appointment is controversial because the designation of a multiple of 10 is assigned to the eastern-western continent of the route and this route is diagonal route from Chicago to Los Angeles. As a compromise for the eastern states of Chicago that feel the US 60 has to go through their country, different routes are numbered 60, while the route from Chicago to Los Angeles is numbered 66.
By 1927, the US 66 route to Arizona had been laid out, but nothing had yet been paved. By 1935, almost the entire route had been paved, with the single exception being the short stretch of Northeast of Valentine and the stretch between Peach Springs and Seligman. By 1938, the entire route in Arizona had been paved. In 1953, US 66 reconciled between the borders of California and Kingman to the southeast to avoid the mountain curves and their original alignment values. In 1961, parts of the highway had been expanded into a four-lane highway to anticipate the upcoming Interstate Highway. The four-lane section includes a section near Ash Fork, another eastern section of Winslow and east of Holbrook near the Petrified Forest National Monument.
Planning
In Flagstaff, several different alternatives are considered a potential route from the new Interstate through the area. The alternative consists of a northern route downtown, south of the city center, through the city center along the Santa Fe railway line right near the alignment of US 66, and a more elaborate alternative to the route over the city center on the long bridge. In January 1959, the Flagstaff Chamber of Commerce recommended to the Public Works Bureau that the southern route of the city center was used as approved by the Flagstaff City Council and the Supervisory Board for Coconino County. This recommendation is accepted and will be the planned route of I-40 in Flagstaff. Business owners throughout US 66 opposed this routing because it would pull motorists off the main line through time route, US 66. As a result, they created the Zero By-Pass Committee and sent proposals to the Commerce Roads Chamber and the Highway Committee undertook a study on the feasibility of the I- 40 through the city center along the Santa Fe rail line. The committee sent a question to the railway company regarding the proposal. The railway rejects the proposed switching of their main railway that says it will produce worse value than it currently exists and to reduce that value, a considerable elongation of railroads is required. With a route through the city now out of the question, the business owner along US 66 compiled city regulations, known as the Initiative 200, filed with Flagstaff city in November 1959 to appear at the election ballot in March 1960. The rules would apply to banning all businesses new commercials on I-40, all routes leading from I-40 to US 66, and areas between I-40 and US 66. In voter turnout, voters strongly voted against the rule by 2,280 to 556 votes.
In 1965, Kingman's I-40 west route was being reconsidered from a planned route through Needles, California to a northerly route that went through Searchlight in southern Nevada and connects with I-15 further north from its current relationship with I-15. The base the thought for the proposal is that it will be a shorter route overall and will be much cheaper to build. The proposal came under severe opposition including four US senators from California and Arizona sending a letter to the Minister of Commerce requesting that the routing via Needle be maintained. This proposal was eventually abandoned in 1966 and routing through Needles was stored.
Construction
The construction of the 360 ​​mile (579 km) I-40 route in Arizona took nearly 25 years to complete with the last segment completed in 1984, longer than the ambitious goal of completion in 1972. At the end of 1960, 15 miles (24 km) has been completed with an additional 23 miles (37 km) being worked on. In 1964, the construction was still in line with 58 miles (93 km) complete and an additional 71 miles (114 km) under construction. Funding became a problem today because the state did not have the funds available to stay in line with the objectives of the 1972 settlement. By 1967, Arizona had completed nearly half the highway with 155.3 miles (249.9 km) complete and 82.4 miles (133 km ) others are under construction. In 1968, a bypass around Flagstaff complete with three interchanges, two at each end where the US 66 broke away from I-40 to enter the city and one at the I-17 intersection. The additional exchange on Butler Avenue finished a year later. One of the major improvements I-40 over US 66 is the development of a segment between Kingman and Ash Fork. The 94-mile (151 km) section is a more direct route between the two cities and a 20 mile (32 km) southerly journey from alignment US 66, past Hackberry and Peach Springs and create ghost towns. The $ 69.1 million segment construction also becomes a much safer route because alignment of US 66 has one of the highest death rates on any part of the highway in Arizona. The Interstate section was completed in 1975. The construction of $ 7.7 million bypass around Winslow began in 1977. The I-40 finished in Arizona in 1984, with the completion of a 6-mile (10 km) section in Williams. This is also the last part of US 66 passed by Interstate, which led to it being passed by the American Association of State Highways and Transportation Offics (AASHTO) the following year.
Exit list
See also
- Arizona Portal
- U.S. Road Portal.
References
External links
- Media related to Interstate 40 in Arizona in Wikimedia Commons
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