A change in the way the Arizona Department of Transportation works with funding has led the Town of Camp Verde to refocus some of its priorities when it comes to streets and roads projects.
The Camp Verde Town Council had been looking at options to redesign the often troublesome tri-intersection where Finnie Flat Road, Main Street and Montezuma Castle Highway meet.
ADOT paid for a study of the area and the Finnie Flat Road business corridor by Jacobs Engineering Group, a California-based company with an office in Phoenix.
The group had also been looking at issues with State Route 260, but abandoned that part of the study after the Town Council decided to work with ADOT to get a roundabout built at State Route 260 and Industrial Drive, an area that has its own share of design and safety problems.
Mayor Charlie German said he moved forward with addressing the issue at the Town Council’s Wednesday, Oct. 7 meeting.
“Things move very quickly and the windows seem like they just close up,” German said.
Discussing the town’s earlier study of traffic issues in 2011, Camp Verde Public Works Director Ron Long said the town applied for federal funding of around $84,000 to start design work for possible updates to the tri-intersection.
To read the full story, see the Wednesday, Oct. 14, edition of The Camp Verde Journal.
