I-19 Exit 87 Papago Road - What gives?

[GreenLanternCorps]

Could someone tell my why this interchange was built?

It is a standard interchange, but with a road that dead ends on both side of the freeway.

Was something supposed to have been built there?

https://www.google.com/maps/@32.0704662,-110.9928849,398m/data=!3m1!1e3

https://www.google.com/maps/@32.0703883,-110.9930562,3a,27y,81.92h,87.44t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1swHwhruggpZoQcNGdIpZ72g!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

[vdeane]

My guess would be some form of ranch access.

[Mapmikey]

Turns out it was to attract development...some extremely forward thinking given this was 1968 and there is still nothing there...

http://tucson.com/news/local/tucson-oddity-take-this-i--exit-and-basically-you/article_66178f30-f89f-592b-9d5a-073ab15e22ae.html

[Max Rockatansky]

Turns out it was to attract development...some extremely forward thinking given this was 1968 and there is still nothing there...

http://tucson.com/news/local/tucson-oddity-take-this-i--exit-and-basically-you/article_66178f30-f89f-592b-9d5a-073ab15e22ae.html

But its reservation development, usually that is extremely hit or miss given the funding is usually lacking.

[GreenLanternCorps]

Turns out it was to attract development...some extremely forward thinking given this was 1968 and there is still nothing there...

http://tucson.com/news/local/tucson-oddity-take-this-i--exit-and-basically-you/article_66178f30-f89f-592b-9d5a-073ab15e22ae.html

But its reservation development, usually that is extremely hit or miss given the funding is usually lacking.

The I-180 of exits...

[JKRhodes]

à la Sunset Road interchange at I-10 a little further north. That one's flanked by a railroad on one side and a quarry/ Santa Cruz River on the other.

Sunset was extended west and tied into Silverbell Road earlier this year, finally, in preparation for construction at Ina.

http://tucson.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/new-sunset-road-opens-the-day-before-ina-road-s/article_b218535b-e9f6-5889-b9a9-145b8ce13124.html