South Mountain Freeway Night Tour - Loop 202 - Phoenix, Arizona - 2020/03/05

Drivelapse video of the South Mountain Freeway in Phoenix, progressing from west to east. Video starts at the Loop 303 Interchange and then follows Interstate 10 before entering Loop 202 and following it easterly to beyond the Loop 101 interchange

[@greg.anywhere]

Phoenix is a great city to drive through, especially at night. Its freeways are very clean and well kept, and just have a different vibe to them.

[@EdgeXXI]

I guarantee you in ten years time that entire Loop 202 South Mountain Freeway corridor will be highly developed. Excellent vid!

[@AsphaltPlanet1]

I think you're right about the development. And thanks much!

[@AsphaltPlanet1]

maybe 10pm or so?

[@AsphaltPlanet1]

I haven't decided yet. I haven't started working on anything.

[@photoniccannon2117]

There's already a lot of development springing up in different areas of it. The south side will pretty much always stay the way that it is though, the reservation is down that way. Towards the west end of the south mountain freeway (when it curves north), there is a lot of available land to develop on both sides of the freeway, which is where a lot of housing is starting to pop up.

[@BrandonClaridge]

That stack at Loop 303 and I-10 is just as impressive as anything in Texas. In fact, it is a Texas-style 5-level stack (with frontage roads intersecting on the second level), and I really don't know of anywhere else outside of Texas that has one of those. And the mainlanes of Loop 303 are at a lower grade than its frontage roads throughout the interchange, despite the wide spacing between the I-10 frontage roads, so this is a true 5-level stack.

[@AsphaltPlanet1]

the stack looks awesome driving through it on Loop 303.

[@photoniccannon2117]

Phoenix took a lot of inspiration from Texas style freeways. Frontage roads are very common here (although they aren't quite everywhere like they are on urban freeways in Texas. However, large parts of I-10, I-17, and the Loop 101 have them, some of them extending for many miles).

[@FirebirdCamaro1220]

I'm pretty sure the I-110/I-105 interchange in South Central Los Angeles is a 5 level

[@mamatemari6061]

Arizona Freeways are more calming than the Las Vegas Freeways

[@StreetFoodKC]

Great video

[@AsphaltPlanet1]

thank you.

[@thevultrantransituniverse1487]

The freeway looks really cool!

[@AsphaltPlanet1]

It is pretty cool. Arizona builds nice freeways.

[@thevultrantransituniverse1487]

Asphalt Planet Do you still have plans to film the Queen Elizabeth Way from Toronto to Fort Erie?

[@AsphaltPlanet1]

i don't know if i've ever had plans to film that much of the QEW.

[@schwenda3727]

Word is, a new "I-10 reliever" freeway between this new South Mountain freeway & perhaps a Loop 303 extension running a couple miles south of I-10 will likely begin construction within the decade... And to top it off, it looks like another new freeway connection between 202 @ Gateway Airport & likely Tuscon may happen... but on the other hand, hasn't Tuscon been adamantly anti-freeway compared to Phoenix?

[@coreysmith8560]

Nice highways

[@AsphaltPlanet1]

Phoenix is a great city to drive through.

[@christophergalindo2064]

I miss the high presssure sodium where you could rest at night

[@Noahvis4]

Nebraska still installs high pressure sodium bulbs. However, their freeways have LED, but they are dimmer and have the orange LED feel instead of the bright daylight led you typically see

[@keokiracerhalsteren]

Wait, is this a reupload? I watched this already XD

[@AsphaltPlanet1]

yeah, there was a mistake in the first version, so I re-rendered it and uploaded it again.

[@keokiracerhalsteren]

@@AsphaltPlanet1 Ah ok :) Speaking of mistakes, the description says Lop 303 instead of Loop 303.

[@AsphaltPlanet1]

that ones an easy fix. Fixing typos in the actual video is a much more involved process ;)

[@keokiracerhalsteren]

@@AsphaltPlanet1 Yeah tell me about it, I cant even count the amount of times Ive reuploaded stuff because of spelling errors. And I still have vids with spelling errors up :[

[@AsphaltPlanet1]

me too. it happens.