A safer road’s in the future for a road a lot of you may take to the Pima County Fair this weekend.
Houghton is the main road into the fairgrounds but it will jam up for that extra traffic. Now Pima County is working to uncork that bottleneck—not so much for the Fair but to relieve congestion year round.Mike Burns says he’s been driving Houghton for a lot of years. He says it was okay until about 2016 when a building boom pumped up the traffic and traffic lights went in at Houghton and I-10.
“I've been caught in traffic all the way back to the fairgrounds trying to go north on Houghton. Flooding in the summertime was a big problem. Sometimes you get flooded out, couldn't get in or couldn't get out. And that's going whether it's Houghton Road, Sahuarita road or Wentworth, you just couldn't get out.”
Now Pima County’s spending 30 million dollars to take Houghton from the two lanes it has now, to four lanes. Engineer Michelle Montagnino manages construction monitoring for Pima DOT. She says, “There's also going to be all weather access through there. We're adding a lot of drainage improvements. There's going to be a traffic signal at Brekke. Some street lighting at Dawn Road. So some major improvements are going to be a major roadway widening corridor. “If you’re heading for the Fair you might be thinking construction on Houghton will aggravate the jam ups.
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