339:- also known as Farrell Rd - and John Wayne Parkway within the community. Route 14 ends at SR 347 but continues west as Farrell Rd within the City of Maricopa. It is also at this point that road changes names back to John Wayne Parkway. The southernmost subdivision in Maricopa - Palo Brea - appears on the east side while the west side is a residential neighborhood on the reservation. Continuing on its northerly path, the road fully enters the City of Maricopa past Palo Brea where another subdivisions appears to the highway's west and the Copper Sky Recreational Complex appears on the east. Past Bowlin road, subdivisions continue to dot the landscape with empty land near the highway zoned for future commercial use. The road then intersects Alterra Parkway/Desert Cedars Drive and Honeycutt Avenue before crossing a
383:(AADT), which is the number of vehicles that use a highway on any average day during the year. In 2009, ADOT calculated that around 4,500 vehicles used the road daily near the SR 84 intersection and about 33,000 vehicles used the route near the I-10 interchange on an average day. A 2018 report said traffic was 31,000 vehicles daily within Maricopa. The ADOT Traffic Monitoring Group calculated an Annual Average Daily Traffic (AADT) of 42,939 cars in 2018 and calculated an AADT estimate of 71,978 cars in 2040 for a portion of this road. In 2012, SR 347 from Farrell Road in Maricopa north to I-10 was added to the
434:, and then having an at-grade intersection with Maricopa-Casa Grande Highway. This railroad crossing caused traffic to stop for passing trains more than sixty times per day. A project to reroute the road slightly east over a new six-lane overpass began in 2018. The city of Maricopa hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new overpass on July 13, 2019, and it was opened to traffic on July 15, 2019. $ 15 million in funding for the project was by the Federal Government's
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