Freeway.

Taken shortly before midnight on Loop 101. I consider myself a lucky man. I have been to all 50 states and I have driven in all but three major cities in the United States (the outliers being Seattle, Miami, and Portland, Oregon). As a road geek and an almost civil engineer with a specialty in traffic management, I appreciate how each municipality approaches their metropolitan transportation needs. Phoenix, Arizona did not implement non-road dependent mass transit until 2008. Conversely, Phoenix didn’t really start building out its freeway system until the mid 1980s, though Interstates 10 and 17 had passed through the city (mostly) since the original construction of the Interstate System. Because Phoenix didn’t start really building out its freeway system until 1985 or so, there weren’t a lot of federal funds available; Arizona opted to implement a 1/2 cent gas tax instead. Therefore, the freeways around Phoenix are not Interstates, they carry state route numbers like “Loop 101” and…

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