Gov. Katie Hobbs won’t use her power to direct the state Department of Transportation to scrap a proposal that could put a new interstate highway next to Tucson Mountain Park and through a special corridor set up to ensure wildlife migration.
The governor told Capitol Media Services she is not surprised that environmental groups have taken the state to court over plans for Interstate 11 — and, specifically a controversial option on where to build a segment.
“Every project is battling environmental groups,” she said.“We have to balance progress and sustainability,” the governor said following the announcement of a new Canada trade office in Arizona. The road is supposed to be part of a new link through the state between Mexico and Canada. “And we’re working really hard to do that.”
But Hobbs balked when it was pointed out that ADOT continues to include that alternative west of Tucson, through the Avra Valley, when there is another option that doesn’t involve a new highway through the area: co-locate I-11 along existing stretches of Interstates 10 and 19.
“I can get back with you with more specifics on it,” the governor promised.
She never did. Instead, her press office directed ADOT to sen …
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