<a title="South Mountain Freeway: Salt River Bridges – April 2018" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/arizonadot/albums/72157693679678471" data-flickr-embed="true"><img width="640" height="427" alt="South Mountain Freeway: Salt River Bridges – April 2018" src="https://farm1.staticflickr.com/901/41307991782_23a8b2a1cd_z.jpg"></a><script src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js" charset="utf-8" async=""></script><br><br>
<strong>By Steve Elliott / <em>ADOT Communications</em></strong><br><br>
A project as large as the Loop 202 South Mountain Freeway makes for some impressive pictures, including the slideshow above produced as crews set extremely long girders to create <a href="https://www.azdot.gov/media/News/news-release/2018/04/11/salt-river-bridges-reaching-new-heights-construction-is-two-thirds-complete">two half-mile bridges that will span the Salt River</a>.<br><br>
There’s plenty more to explore on the <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/arizonadot/collections/72157681384553775/">South Mountain Freeway Flickr page</a> – 31 albums in all, from the <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/arizonadot/sets/72157679083689472/">start of construction on the 17th Avenue interchange</a> to <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/arizonadot/sets/72157679832505143/">showcasing colors and designs</a> to be used on interchange and walls to <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/arizonadot/sets/72157687603806956/">creating the I-10 interchange in the West Valley</a>.<br><br>
You’ll see some videos there as well, including this one showing one of the long, long Salt River bridge girders arriving at the construction site.<br><br>
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Source: Arizona DMV