The Broadway Curve improvement project has been under construction for more than two years, and it is entering its third phase.

It is the "largest-ever freeway reconstruction project" the Arizona Department of Transportation has ever undertaken, state officials said in a release.

Phase three will involve:

• Completing the collector distributor roads.
• Completing the new SR 143 and I-10 direct connections.
• Completing bridge work.
• Reconstructing the 32nd Street ramps.
• Making roadway improvements.
• Drainage and sign work.
• Widening roads and bridges.

The work is expected to take place throughout the summer, according to ADOT.

During phase two, some of the construction that crews completed included:

• Beginning of construction of the collector distributor roads.
• Removal of the former 48th Street and Broadway Road bridges and completed construction of the new structures.
• Reconstruction of 40th Street ramps.
• Construction of the US 60 to I-10 bridge.
• Construction of the Alameda Drive and Western Canal pedestrian bridges.
• Construction of new walls.
• Coordination of utility relocations.

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