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March 24 2024 Vol. II • No. 6
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Span Setters Crews Placing 217 Girders as Part of Arizona’s I-10 Project
The Arizona Department of Transportation recently announced that the Interstate 10 Project in the Tucson area is close to 50 percent complete as work crews have now set more than 80 bridge girders in place and installed large sections of the new concrete driving surface. A key element of the project involves placing 217 girders for nine new bridges, and most of those girders along I-10 will be set by the end of March.
Crews began reconstructing a portion of Interstate 10 in Tucson, Ariz., a little over a year ago, but work is quickly progressing and the Arizona Department of Transportation recently announced that the project is now close to
halfway complete. According to the latest updates, work is now more than 40 percent complete on the Arizona Department of Transportation’s project to reconstruct and widen I10 between Ina and Ruthrauff
roads, with work starting just less than one year ago. A key element of the project involves placing 217 girders for nine new bridges, and most of those girders along I-10 will be set by the end of March. Meanwhile,
work crews have completed 80 percent of concrete paving work and are now turning to concrete drainage features and barriers. That concrete barrier work is key to a future milestone that will return drivers back to I-10 itself
rather than using the current detour along frontage roads. Once the barrier work is complete by late summer, westbound and eastbound I10 traffic will shift to the reconstructed freeway lanes. see SPAN page 6