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Status: | Feasibility study phase; one section (Hoover Dam Bypass) complete and open to traffic; second section (Boulder City Bypass) under construction | ||||||
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Interstate 11 (I-11) is a proposed Interstate Highway, officially designated by the United States Congress in the 2015 Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act. It is tentatively planned to run from Nogales, Arizona to Reno, Nevada along the current routes of Interstate 19, Interstate 10, U.S. Route 93, and U.S. Route 95.
As originally proposed in the 2012 Surface Transportation Act, the highway would only run from Casa Grande, Arizona to Las Vegas, Nevada via Kingman and Buckeye, Arizona. This was to provide a direct Interstate link between the Las Vegas and Phoenix metropolitan areas, which are currently the two largest American cities lacking a direct freeway link.
The Interstate is congressionally enacted as cited above, and signs marking the "Future I-11 Corridor" are now posted in Arizona. There are two signs on the southbound side, at mile marker 2 and on US 93 just south of I-40; and two northbound signs north of Phoenix and Kingman on US 93. The involvement of American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) and the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)—the agencies normally charged with Interstate Highway numbering and planning—has yet to occur.