It wasn’t so long ago that a driver on Loop 303 would see only desert as far as the eye could see and only occasionally pass another car.
Just 10 years after the freeway opened in north Phoenix and Peoria, traffic engineers are predicting the road could be impassable by 2040 ― if not sooner ― thanks to an explosion of development brought by the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.
When TSMC announced, built and expanded its $165 billion plant, it sparked a wider development boom that forced city and county planners to fast-track improvements of Loop 303 as one of the region’s top priorities…