You sat in more stop-than-go traffic on Interstate-10 on the way home from work while you resisted the urge – or not – to hurl epithets.

That’s the way it was.

The way it is now, as Arizona Department of Transportation mops up its nearly four-year rebuild of the Valley’s busiest freeway, 11 miles from I-17 through the Broadway Curve to the Loop 202 interchange in Ahwatukee: Better. It’s fresh, so it’s going to take time to assess how much better.

ADOT has finished the heavy lifting. The new traffic lanes, interchanges and bridges are done. What remains is landscaping, lane striping, signage, lighting and completion of ramps that lead to two new pedestrian/cyclists bridges over I-10, which ADOT hopes to complete by June 1.

It is the largest rebuild of a freeway in ADOT history.

“We are

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