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The Arizona State Transportation Board has awarded a $106 million construction project to build a freeway interchange for I-40 and US 93 in Kingman, Arizona.
The board selected Dickinson, North Dakota-based Fisher Sand & Gravel Co., according to an announcement last week. Work on this first phase of the project is expected to begin this summer and last two and a half years.
The interchange in West Kingman is designed to reduce congestion on the busy route between Phoenix and Las Vegas while improving safety, travel times and reliability, according to the release. Although vehicles must now stop at a traffic signal where Beale Street intersects with I-40, the system-to-system interchange will have ramps that will allow traffic to flow freely.
Because Arizona DOT does not have the funds to build all of the improvements to a full system interchange at once, the project will be built in two phases, according to its website. The directional ramps from Phoenix to Las Vegas will be built first.
Phase II will build the directional ramps between Las Vegas and California when traffic demands warrant the improvements and when available funding can be scheduled, according to Arizona DOT.
The interchange is designed to handle expected traffic growth over the next 25 years, according to the release.
Fisher Sand & Gravel is known for its work on US-Mexico border wall projects. During the Trump administration, he received nearly $2 billion in federal contracts by the wall
In 2022, the company settled a lawsuit filed by the federal government about potential flood risks associated with a privately funded 3-mile-long wall the company built in 2019, according to the Daily Journal.
