The city of Mesa’s completion of the Signal Butte Road expansion now offers an alternate access route to State Route 24. The southeast Mesa project opened to traffic on Dec. 14 connecting …
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New Signal Butte Road, SR24 connection opens
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This project, one of many approved by the voters in 2020, will provide an additional north-south connection for the city of Mesa and its neighbors and provide additional access to the newly completed SR 24 project in southeast Mesa.”
Erik Guderian, Mesa transportation deputy director
The city of Mesa’s completion of the Signal Butte Road expansion now offers an alternate access route to State Route 24. The southeast Mesa project opened to traffic on Dec. 14 connecting Signal Butte Road from Germann to Williams Field Road, a 2-mile stretch of road for the region.
This newly completed extension of Signal Butte Road stretches to the border with the town of Queen Creek, with a four-lane arterial roadway to the north and two lanes for future expansion to the south. The project improvements also included drainage infrastructure, new streetlights and traffic signals, according to a release.
The roadway will improve traffic flow between the two communities, offering additional access to SR24, U.S. Highway 60 and Loop 202. This alternate access route is also vital to the area’s growing commercial, industrial and residential developments. The project was funded by the Federal Highway Administration’s Surface Transportation Block Grant program (84%) and the city of Mesa’s 2020 Street Bond program (16%), the release states.
“The completion of Signal Butte Road to Mesa’s south border is an important milestone for the city of Mesa,” Erik Guderian, Mesa’s transportation deputy director, said in the release. “This project, one of many approved by the voters in 2020, will provide an additional north-south connection for the city of Mesa and its neighbors and provide additional access to the newly completed SR 24 project in southeast Mesa.”
The city of Mesa, in partnership with the Arizona Department of Transportation, encourages residents to use caution and follow traffic laws on the new roadway with a reminder that SR24 is not a freeway, rather an expressway with traffic signals at the intersections.
For more information about the SR24 project, go to az.gov/projects.
