Paving work starts on Gateway Freeway

San Tan Sentinel

Workers lay pavement on a 5-mile stretch of the new Gateway Freeway, which will connect Ellsworth Road in Maricopa County with Ironwood Drive in Pinal County. ADOT

The Arizona Department of Transportation, in conjunction with the Federal Highway Administration, has begun construction of the Interim Phase II section of State Route 24, also referred to as Gateway Freeway.

This week workers began paving a section of the new freeway.

This section includes approximately 5 miles of new freeway extending from Ellsworth Road in Maricopa County to Ironwood Drive in Pinal County.

The Interim Phase II segment of SR 24 follows the completion of Phase I in 2014, which opened the segment of freeway between SR 202 (Loop 202/Santan Freeway) and Ellsworth Road.

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