Tres Rios Freeway- AZ

[JKRhodes]

I'm not a huge fan of the name Tres Rios. It feels hacky, a basic geographical observation translated into spanish.

Estrella Mountain Freeway would be more appropriate.

[Max Rockatansky]

I'm not a huge fan of the name Tres Rios. It feels hacky, a basic geographical observation translated into spanish.

Estrella Mountain Freeway would be more appropriate.

That would probably more fitting if I-11 took a cut through the mountains to Casa Grande and Maricopa. 

[JKRhodes]

I'm not a huge fan of the name Tres Rios. It feels hacky, a basic geographical observation translated into spanish.

Estrella Mountain Freeway would be more appropriate.

That would probably more fitting if I-11 took a cut through the mountains to Casa Grande and Maricopa.

I just read up on it and found out about this... Apparently there was a large flood control / wetland preservation project undertaken in the early 2000's near the convergence of those three rivers, completed in 2010 and named Tres Rios. So my hunch that it was a random spanish name drawn out of a hat is bunk.

Between the existing Agua Fria Freeway and the future Hassayampa Freeway (I-11), I can see perhaps they're going for a "river based" naming convention in the west valley, as opposed to the "mountain based" naming convention in the East Valley.