No I-10 median barriers in near future, officials say
by Heather Smathers | Casa Grande Dispatch
The interchange at Picacho that is being built within the I-10 widening project is one of two freeway stretches north and south of Casa Grande that Mike Humphrey says needs to be installed with median cables./ADOT via Casa Grande Dispatch
When Interstate 10 is completely widened between Casa Grande and Tucson later this year, motorists will see a new alignment and wide medians, but they won’t see median cables despite a decade-long push by a Tucson man to have the barriers installed.
Mike Humphrey has been pushing the Arizona Department of Transportation, and the State Transportation Board, to install median cables, barriers that would prevent vehicles from crossing the median and crashing into oncoming traffic.
Humphrey knows a little about cross-median crashes; his wife and sister were killed in one of those in 2008, north of Casa Grande near milepost 171. Since then, he’s been trying to convince state officials that median cables will save countless lives.
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