FUTURE INTERSTATE 11 International Trade and Transportation

FUTURE INTERSTATE 11
International Trade and Transportation Corridor
Presented by
Chuck Huckelberry
Pima County Administrator
Infrastructure Investment Drives Economic Expansion
The Past
• Inland waterways: Erie Canal completed in 1825.
• First Transcontinental Railroad – completed in 1869.
• Arizona’s dams. Roosevelt Dam, completed in 1911, and Hoover Dam
completed in 1936.
• Interstate highway system: Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956.
• The Information Highway (Internet). Worldwide Web goes public in 1991.
The Future
• An International Trade and Transportation Corridor
Mexico is an Emerging Economic Engine
Driving Air, Rail and Truck Logistics
• $300 billion infrastructure investment over next 6 years
• Planned Port of Guaymas expansion
• 240 aerospace companies
• Mexican visitors spend $7.2 million per day in Arizona
• World’s leading exporter of tomatoes – $2.03 billion (2011)
• World’s leading exporter of beer – $2.02 billion (2011)
• Automotive, electronics and aircraft engines
• Growing Mexican middle class demand for goods
Canamex to Interstate 11
What’s Beyond the Interstate 11 Designation: Southern Arizona Connectivity
Established
1995
Source: ADOT 2013
ONE ALTERNATIVE WITH MEASURED IMPACT
IMPACTS
• Right of Way , 2035 acres
Ownership
Acres
%
State Trust
827
41
City, County
and Federal
716
35
Private; mostly
vacant agricultural
492
24
• Residential Structures
47
• Mitigation Obligation
4,964 acres to buffer
public reserves and
protect wildlife corridors
INTERMOUNTAIN WEST INTERNATIONAL TRANSPORTATION
AND TRADE CORRIDOR:
FUTURE INTERSTATE 11
LENGTHS IN PIMA COUNTY
Future I-11 Option
1 to 2 = 56 miles 1
Aerospace/Sonoran Corridor
21 miles
2
Sahuarita to Mexico
47 miles
3
County Conservation Land System
(CLS) Impacts and Mitigation
Conservation Land Category
Multiuse Management Area
Acres
Mitigation
Percent
Acres
1,003
49
2,006
Special Species Management Area
347
17
1,390
Biological Core Management Area
345
17
1,382
Agricultural Inholdings
170
8
0
Outside CLS
121
6
0
47
2
187
2,035
100
4,964
Important Riparian Area
Totals
Designated
Wildlife Corridors
Desired
Alignment for
the Southern
Arizona Future
Connectivity
Segment of I-11
Linking the region’s largest employers and
facilitating an air, rail and truck logistics center
The I-19 and I-10
Connection:
Aerospace/
Sonoran Corridor
Why a new transportation and trade corridor?
Connect the Dots: $490 Million Already Invested in the Trade Corridor
Extend Interstate 11 from Phoenix to Nogales
Recommendations
1. Fund and build State Route 189 – the Mariposa to I-19 connection.
2. Designate the Intermountain West Corridor from Nogales to Phoenix, through metro
Tucson, as the anchor leg of a future Interstate 11.
3. The Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) should designate a new state route
along the Aerospace/Sonoran Corridor connecting I-19 to I-10 functioning as an
auxiliary interstate highway.
4. Request that the Arizona Congressional delegation identify and fund the I-11 segment
from Phoenix to Nogales, as well as the auxiliary interstate highway along the
Aerospace/Sonoran Corridor connecting I-19 and I-10, in any future federal surface
transportation legislation.
5. Support air, rail and surface transportation improvements to develop regional logistics
services, including a second runway at Tucson International Airport and rail/freight
interfaces at the Port of Tucson and Red Rock.