That dreaded red light at Beale Street, where Las Vegas-to-Phoenix traffic grinds to a halt west of Kingman, is finally getting a serious work-around. The Arizona Department of Transportation is in the middle of building a new freeway-to-freeway interchange that will let drivers bypass the stoplight entirely.
Construction kicked off in July 2024 and covers roughly one mile of new highway, along with new bridges, tunnels and sound walls. Work is expected to continue into 2027, when the interchange is set to open along with about six miles of widened or newly built roadway, according to the Arizona Department of Transportation.
The roughly $106.5 million project is designed to create a free-flowing connector between US 93 and I-40 while still keeping access to downtown Kingman via Beale Street. Arizona Department of Transportation materials say the work includes five new bridges, rehabilitation of several existing bridges, two miles of sound walls and a mile-long connector that will tie into US 93 northwest of the current Beale Street interchange…