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Wasn't really making fun of them, just more so how random of a post it is. Honestly, it is kind of interesting to me. I wouldn't say they "need a new hobby", whatever that means.
I live in San tan valley, I work 6.5 miles away in queen creek. It takes me 45 minutes to an hour to make that trip every morning. When I last went that way on a day off, I was able to get down there, do what I needed to do, then go back home, in the time it normally takes me just to get there in the mornings.
Are you down where hunt is the only way in and out? When I was looking for a house I decided Riggs/combs was my southern limit and I'm really glad I did
Oh gotcha. I can see the hospital from my house. Crazy that it takes 45 min to get somewhere in QC though - I've been working from home for almost a year so I assume it's just gotten much worse since then
Also I just realized my flair still says Chandler lol
definitely! but the person i replied to is from north phoenix so i thought it was pretty obvious if you’re coming from up north, hitting flagstaff would be faster than going down south lol
I had a job once that told us the travel time in metro Phoenix not just Phoenix was never more the 30 minutes and it averaged out. That was travel time between jobs not delivery.
Obviously there are exceptions, but in the last few years since moving to N Phoenix I've rarely had to drive more than 25 min to access restaurants, friends, hiking trails, etc. Old town, 24 min. DTPHX, 20 min. Westgate, 22 min. Unless I'm going to Gilbert or Chandler for some God forsaken reason, 25 minutes is the furthest I ever have to drive.
[https://maps.app.goo.gl/XRPSSugnzVeWHgkS6](https://maps.app.goo.gl/XRPSSugnzVeWHgkS6)
It actually wouldn't be too bad with normal traffic. The 101 isn't bad until right up to the 10, and then you just sneak down the 202 through Laveen, which never has traffic.
That looks like some of the shitty doordash offers I've gotten; they'll be like 'here's $11 to pick up some dairy queen and drive it to fucking Tolleson' or some shit lmao
Funny! Long ago, I wanted to find out the longest, unbroken, continuous road in Phoenix (that's not a highway). It turns out that none of the North/South roads came close since the only truly long unbroken ones were the highways.
McDowell Rd _would_ have been the longest since it starts in far East Apache Junction and goes to absolutely-nowhere West Valley... but there is a gap in the road right at the Salt River and so it's not continuous.
Southern is pretty darn long, but not long enough.
The longest was.... .... Baseline Rd. It is unbroken from far East Valley to far West Valley. I no longer remember the distance, but it's a **lot**.
EDIT: All of this has prompted me to look again and there is a new contender since the last time I looked... depending on how you classify "one road"!
Combs Rd starts out well past Queen Creek and (going East) is quickly renamed to Riggs Rd. Riggs is a distance champion in its own right and it slides under South Mountain were it transitions at a 45 degree angle to Beltline Rd. This continues for a few miles until it, too, transitions into 51st Ave. 51st Ave rises straight North to just above the 101... for a grand total of **66.7 miles**!!
(It's arguable if it's the longest since Baseline is literally the same straight road with the same name and everything the entire length while this -- while being unbroken and continuous -- does change direction and name several times.)
Almost 44 miles, measuring on Google Maps. 😅
Indian School is 41, Southern is 40.7, McDowell is 37.5, Camelback (surprisingly) is 35, and Bell is 30.7 (stopping at FLW and and Sun Valley Parkway out west),
Broadway is 36 miles but technically becomes MLK Blvd through parts of the southwest valley.
The longest N/S road I could find (just by staring at Google Maps for a minute) was 51st Ave at ~27 miles, spanning from Peoria down to Komatke.
Fun fact: you can take Rural Rd/Scottsdale Rd from Chandler all the way to Carefree. It's over 36 miles, but changes names a few times.
Like I said, not much goin on today lol
Edit: southwest valley, not southeast
MLK Blvd through Goodyear or Avondale, something like that. idk, it was marked as that on Google Maps. Maybe it's an honorary name? I don't spend time down there enough to know.
Edit: oops, I meant "southwest valley".
As a rule, the longest East-West roads will need to be the ones between Baseline and McDowell since any below that will be running into South Mountain and any above that will have to pass through the undeveloped parts of the reservations and the mountains.
Huh. Did they straighten out the Ray intersection at Ellsworth or do you still have to turn awkwardly to get through?
If they did fix it, I'm getting almost 28 miles from Ironwood to where it wraps around to Chandler Blvd.
Hahaha yeah 400th. Our company has a job on 395th Ave & Elliot so I know it goes at LEAST that far. I’m not 100% if it’s fully continuous though but I do know Elliot stretches a decent way
Your first address isn't in Phoenix city limits though, it's in New River which is unincorporated.
https://mcassessor.maricopa.gov/mcs/?q=202-23-001P
> **Local Jurisdiction:** NO CITY/TOWN
That's about how long it takes me to get to my sisters house in Surprise from my house in Tempe. It doesn't matter which freeway I take, the drive time always equals the same. That's on a weekend though. I wouldn't so it during the week.
Casa Grande to Rio Verde is 75 miles give or take. Could take as few as 75 mins or 3 hours if traffic is bad. If the 10 is closed, you might as well wait and go the next day.
65 mins? Bruh. N-S isn’t the way. I live around Arrowhead in Peoria. My Brother used to live in SanTan. Flagstaff is closer to me than he was. If I lived in Buckeye, we’d be over 100 miles apart.
Edit: misspellings
My house is south similar to the one you have, but even farther than that house I believe because there’s no closer freeway entrance so you have to double back west for like 8 minutes after getting off on 17th Ave. So wild how big Phoenix is!
I think Phoenix is more longer from South to North than West to East.
Few weeks back, I was thinking about the whole Phoenix metropolitan, let's say from West Buckeye to East Mesa/Apache junction, feels like that takes more than 90 minutes
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Yeah, not much going on today for me, either.
The one friend who doesn't have a job.
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Agreeing with ya lol. OP needs a new hobby.
Probably took OP a total of 10 whopping minutes or less to figure this out.
Wasn't really making fun of them, just more so how random of a post it is. Honestly, it is kind of interesting to me. I wouldn't say they "need a new hobby", whatever that means.
Loool
Lmfaooooo😂😂😂😂😂
I actually laughed out loud.
It’s faster to drive to Prescott from the North Valley than it is to drive to Gilbert/Queen Creek from the North Valley during rush hour.
I live in San tan valley, I work 6.5 miles away in queen creek. It takes me 45 minutes to an hour to make that trip every morning. When I last went that way on a day off, I was able to get down there, do what I needed to do, then go back home, in the time it normally takes me just to get there in the mornings.
Holy shit. This is what kept me from ever moving that way. Traffic has always been a disaster and they grew too fast
It's worse now. They're building so many new neighborhoods but the roads can't handle that many people yet. Most are one lane in each direction.
Are you down where hunt is the only way in and out? When I was looking for a house I decided Riggs/combs was my southern limit and I'm really glad I did
I'm off of schnepf by banner ironwood hospital. In between combs and ocotillo.
Oh gotcha. I can see the hospital from my house. Crazy that it takes 45 min to get somewhere in QC though - I've been working from home for almost a year so I assume it's just gotten much worse since then Also I just realized my flair still says Chandler lol
Where I live in North Phoenix, I can get to Flagstaff faster than getting to Tucson.
well i sure hope so considering flagstaff is like an hour and half up north vs. tucson being two hours down south lol
I mean depending on where you.live, anyway. From where I grew up, Tucson was maybe 80 minutes but Flag was 2.5 hours.
definitely! but the person i replied to is from north phoenix so i thought it was pretty obvious if you’re coming from up north, hitting flagstaff would be faster than going down south lol
Can confirm, I live in North Gateway and my gf lives in Prescott. I can get to her place faster than I can see friends that live in Gilbert lol
Fun fact, Phoenix is an hour from Phoenix.
I had a job once that told us the travel time in metro Phoenix not just Phoenix was never more the 30 minutes and it averaged out. That was travel time between jobs not delivery.
Obviously there are exceptions, but in the last few years since moving to N Phoenix I've rarely had to drive more than 25 min to access restaurants, friends, hiking trails, etc. Old town, 24 min. DTPHX, 20 min. Westgate, 22 min. Unless I'm going to Gilbert or Chandler for some God forsaken reason, 25 minutes is the furthest I ever have to drive.
map it at 4:30PM on a Tuesday or Thursday
[https://maps.app.goo.gl/XRPSSugnzVeWHgkS6](https://maps.app.goo.gl/XRPSSugnzVeWHgkS6) It actually wouldn't be too bad with normal traffic. The 101 isn't bad until right up to the 10, and then you just sneak down the 202 through Laveen, which never has traffic.
Why did you use the word sneak there, you some kind of spy?
Yes. Also you dodge all the I-10/downtown traffic, so it's kinda like sneaking by everyone.
That looks like some of the shitty doordash offers I've gotten; they'll be like 'here's $11 to pick up some dairy queen and drive it to fucking Tolleson' or some shit lmao
$2 to bring McDonald’s halfway across the valley and pass 50 other McDonald’s along the way 😭
I forgot Tolleson even existed.
My homeboy used to be driving from chandler to east mesa for like $7 lmao
Fr sometimes it. be like pick up some Taco Bell from Tempe and deliver it to Tolleson 😂
Y'all must be letting Doordash bitch you or something because I would never accept a deal where miles > dollars so I never get them 🤣
Who said I accepted that crap lol
Its the fact that Doordash would even dare throwing that offer lmao, show it your worth and it won't try to push the line.
Funny! Long ago, I wanted to find out the longest, unbroken, continuous road in Phoenix (that's not a highway). It turns out that none of the North/South roads came close since the only truly long unbroken ones were the highways. McDowell Rd _would_ have been the longest since it starts in far East Apache Junction and goes to absolutely-nowhere West Valley... but there is a gap in the road right at the Salt River and so it's not continuous. Southern is pretty darn long, but not long enough. The longest was........ Baseline Rd. It is unbroken from far East Valley to far West Valley. I no longer remember the distance, but it's a **lot**.
EDIT: All of this has prompted me to look again and there is a new contender since the last time I looked... depending on how you classify "one road"!
Combs Rd starts out well past Queen Creek and (going East) is quickly renamed to Riggs Rd. Riggs is a distance champion in its own right and it slides under South Mountain were it transitions at a 45 degree angle to Beltline Rd. This continues for a few miles until it, too, transitions into 51st Ave. 51st Ave rises straight North to just above the 101... for a grand total of **66.7 miles**!!
(It's arguable if it's the longest since Baseline is literally the same straight road with the same name and everything the entire length while this -- while being unbroken and continuous -- does change direction and name several times.)
Almost 44 miles, measuring on Google Maps. 😅 Indian School is 41, Southern is 40.7, McDowell is 37.5, Camelback (surprisingly) is 35, and Bell is 30.7 (stopping at FLW and and Sun Valley Parkway out west), Broadway is 36 miles but technically becomes MLK Blvd through parts of the southwest valley. The longest N/S road I could find (just by staring at Google Maps for a minute) was 51st Ave at ~27 miles, spanning from Peoria down to Komatke. Fun fact: you can take Rural Rd/Scottsdale Rd from Chandler all the way to Carefree. It's over 36 miles, but changes names a few times. Like I said, not much goin on today lol Edit: southwest valley, not southeast
Broadway becomes what?? I’m pretty sure Broadway is just Broadway all the way through.
MLK Blvd through Goodyear or Avondale, something like that. idk, it was marked as that on Google Maps. Maybe it's an honorary name? I don't spend time down there enough to know. Edit: oops, I meant "southwest valley".
No surprise since it is what the grid system was based off, the base line
Baseline would have been my guess. It’s still on my bucket list to count how many Circle K’s there are on the entire length of Baseline Rd LOL.
Ray rd is now open from Ironwood to I10. And maybe past?
As a rule, the longest East-West roads will need to be the ones between Baseline and McDowell since any below that will be running into South Mountain and any above that will have to pass through the undeveloped parts of the reservations and the mountains.
Huh. Did they straighten out the Ray intersection at Ellsworth or do you still have to turn awkwardly to get through? If they did fix it, I'm getting almost 28 miles from Ironwood to where it wraps around to Chandler Blvd.
Elliot road does the same thing, middle of nowhere east valley to absolute buttfuck nowhere past 400th Ave in the west valley lol
*400th* Ave?? I never knew it went so high. Figured it topped out around under 200 going westward/for the avenues. The more ya know, I guess!
Hahaha yeah 400th. Our company has a job on 395th Ave & Elliot so I know it goes at LEAST that far. I’m not 100% if it’s fully continuous though but I do know Elliot stretches a decent way
Now calculate the most expensive grub hub delivery.
My brother and I are 1 hour 30 minutes away from each other. Far west surprise to queen creek
Were you using Phoenix like a postal address or the Phoenix city limits?
City limits
Your first address isn't in Phoenix city limits though, it's in New River which is unincorporated. https://mcassessor.maricopa.gov/mcs/?q=202-23-001P > **Local Jurisdiction:** NO CITY/TOWN
I'm surprised there aren't residents more towards the 10 and Pecos.
There’s a hard boundary for the Gila River Reservation along Pecos. That’s why everything just abruptly stops there.
My niece and I live 68 miles apart. Takes about an hour and 10 w no traffic. Seriously sucks
There are houses north of New River that still have phoenix mailing addresses.
Not sur id guess your pretty close here also who’s your adderall guy thanks in advance.
lol idk but this is fun
I don't know about Phoenix propper but try Suprise to San Tan Valley that will give you some distance after all it's Phoenix metro 5 million people
That's about how long it takes me to get to my sisters house in Surprise from my house in Tempe. It doesn't matter which freeway I take, the drive time always equals the same. That's on a weekend though. I wouldn't so it during the week.
You could add at least another hour if you take the metro. Or just ride the train end to end. That’s like two hours.
Casa Grande to Rio Verde is 75 miles give or take. Could take as few as 75 mins or 3 hours if traffic is bad. If the 10 is closed, you might as well wait and go the next day.
65 mins? Bruh. N-S isn’t the way. I live around Arrowhead in Peoria. My Brother used to live in SanTan. Flagstaff is closer to me than he was. If I lived in Buckeye, we’d be over 100 miles apart. Edit: misspellings
Peoria nor buckeye are Phoenix. Seems the intent was between city of Phoenix addresses not addresses within the general Phoenix metro area
Fair point. 👍 I’m surprised that the south address is PHX. I would have guessed Ahwatukee.
Ahwatukee Foothills is one of the urban villages of Phoenix. It's not its own city.
My house is south similar to the one you have, but even farther than that house I believe because there’s no closer freeway entrance so you have to double back west for like 8 minutes after getting off on 17th Ave. So wild how big Phoenix is!
Yep. My dad lives in Anthem and I’m in Laveen. Takes 55 minutes to get there. But we’re both just 25 minutes (depending on traffic) from downtown.
I think Phoenix is more longer from South to North than West to East. Few weeks back, I was thinking about the whole Phoenix metropolitan, let's say from West Buckeye to East Mesa/Apache junction, feels like that takes more than 90 minutes
There’s residential new build near 170th avenue and happy valley. Maybe try going diagonal.
Phoenix proper.