Hardy, who works in sales for a telecommunication business at the Scottsdale Airpark, short term accommodation in rome is one of 42,800-plus short term accommodation in rome "extreme commuters" who drive at least 90 minutes one way to work in Arizona, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
Commuters say the trip gets more stressful and expensive short term accommodation in rome every year. Traffic is increasing, and vehicles are traveling at 75 mph or faster. Gasoline prices continue to hover near $3 a gallon. And the major widening project has closed the main freeway ramps leading to Tucson's downtown and the University of Arizona for the next 2 1/2 years.
A surprising number of people are regular Picacho Peak passers-by. The 2000 census, the last year for which good numbers are available, showed that about 3,050 people who lived in Maricopa or Pima County worked in the other county. That number undoubtedly has increased.
Also, growth between the two major metropolitan areas makes commuting more likely. A resident who lived on the outskirts of Marana, north of Tucson, almost might be able to get to a job in south Tempe in an hour, about the same time it might take an Intel worker who lived in Surprise to get to south Chandler.
Glenn Merrell, a Tucson information-technology worker who commutes daily to his job in Tempe and is away from home about 12 hours a day, figures he earns about 30 percent more by working in Maricopa County than in Pima County. He said Tucson has a nice "small-town feel."
John McDaniel, a Scottsdale biotechnology salesman who has been driving two or three times a week to Tucson for six years, said, "I kind of equate it to a NASCAR race. The competition between cars and truckers makes it stressful."
The freeway carries about 169,000 vehicles daily in the downtown Tucson area, about 50,000 vehicles a day near Casa Grande, and about 253,000 on the Broadway Curve at the Tempe-Phoenix short term accommodation in rome border, according to 2006 Arizona Department of Transportation counts.
Daily traffic counts short term accommodation in rome at Pecos Road and I-10 in Chandler rose 40 percent from 72,900 in 2003 to 102,000 in 2006, ADOT said. Traffic at Ina Road in north Tucson jumped 20 percent, from 87,200 to 105,000, in the same time.
The Maricopa and Pima Associations of Governments want to get better numbers on how many motorists travel between the urban areas. In the fall, they plan to conduct a 48-hour survey using cameras at 17 locations in the Phoenix and Tucson areas that will snap pictures of license plates.
Emergency Restoration Experts, a Chandler company that cleans short term accommodation in rome up after fires, water damage and other situations, has two or three employees commuting daily between the company's offices in Chandler and Tucson, short term accommodation in rome said Penni Leiser, finance and marketing director. Leiser, a Chandler resident, short term accommodation in rome goes at least once a week to Tucson, usually on Thursdays, and starts dreading it on Wednesdays.
"One day I was so busy because I had a report to work on and some contracts I had to read. So the company literally paid one of my administrative people to drive me down to Tucson so I could work on the hour and 45 minutes down and hour and 45 minutes back," she said.
Lee Dueringer, a Scottsdale resident who works for the Arizona Cancer Center at the University of Arizona in Tucson, considers short term accommodation in rome a big vehicle safer for his trips once or twice a week to Tucson. He is associate director of development for major gifts and lives in Scottsdale because more large donors live in the Phoenix area.
"It can be a pretty fast drive because everybody is going at least 75 or 85 miles an hour," he said. "One thing I learned early on is you got to have a good powerful vehicle. My safety and being able to get out of the way of somebody is more important to me than the gas mileage."
"Usually I don't get a chance to listen to the radio because I am exclusively on the phone," he said. "I am trying to spin a positive, and the good side is that in an hour and 45 minute trip I get a lot done telephonically that I normally might be doing at home."
Five days a week, Stephen Hardy wakes up about 4:30 a.m. and spends about six hours in his car as a part of his approximately 270-mile round-trip commute from southeast Tucson to his job in Scottsdale.
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