PHOENIX – Beginning the evening of Friday, Feb. 14, the Arizona Department of Transportation will close Ruthrauff Road at Interstate 10 for a two-year project on the interchange. The Department says it maintain access to area businesses throughout the project.
The project includes creating a bridge carrying Ruthrauff Road over both I-10 and the Union Pacific Railroad tracks as well as widening the freeway.
The project is expected to maintain a smooth traffic flow at I-10 and Orange Grove, Sunset and Prince roads, the interchanges immediately west and east of Ruthrauff Road. The new Ruthrauff Road overpass is expected to open to cross-traffic by fall 2021, with the interchange ramps opening later in the year.
Utility relocation on the $129 million project began in 2019, and construction began in early January.
Work to close Ruthrauff Road/El Camino del Cerro at I-10 is scheduled to begin the evening of Friday, Feb. 14, and continue through the morning of Sunday, Feb. 16. The following closures and restrictions will then be in place:
- Ruthrauff Road and El Camino del Cerro will be closed to all traffic between Highway Drive/Davis Avenue and the business entrances west of I-10.
- All ramps between I-10 and Ruthrauff Road/El Camino del Cerro will close except for the westbound I-10 off-ramp, which will remain open to provide access to westbound I-10 frontage road businesses only.
- The eastbound frontage road will be converted to a two-way road south of Sunset Road. There will be no access to El Camino del Cerro from the frontage road.
- The eastbound frontage road will be converted to a two-way road northwest of Commerce Drive. There will be no access to or from El Camino del Cerro from the frontage road.
- The westbound frontage road will close northwest of Prince Road.