A pair of road projects totaling $186 million between Las Vegas and Phoenix are making progress that will lead to a smoother commute between the two desert southwest cities.

Work on the $106 million Interstate 40/U.S. Highway 93 interchange in Kingman, Arizona, and the $80.6 million U.S. 93 Cane Springs highway widening projects are both at the halfway point, according to the Arizona Department of Transportation.

The interchange is the source of routine bottlenecks where motorists transfer between I-40 and U.S. 93, where I-40 intersects with Beale Street in Kingman. The project is slated to improve traffic by creating a system-to-system interchange with ramps to allow traffic to flow freely between the two highways.

A little over a year into the project, crews have built multiple new st

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