Affordable Housing Has Its Price

Thousands of motorists face horrible traffic every day along three main routes linking Pinal County's affordable housing to Maricopa County job centers.

Residents in the Santan area of Pinal County join Gilbert drivers as they fight the surface streets north to the Superstition Freeway.

Maricopa drivers face two crowded lanes of Arizona 347 in each direction before hitting a wall of Ahwatukee Foothills and Chandler residents on Interstate 10.

The Hunt Highway leading down to the Johnson Ranch area is another area that has extensive traffic congestion due to all the new housing. About 21,000 vehicles a day travel the Hunt Highway and Ellsworth area into Queen Creek and then north to the Superstition Freeway. Six years ago, the intersection say only 2,400 vehicles a day. More...