Saturday, February 21, 2009

As we turn to the West to land at Sky Harbor, we fly over Mesa, AZ. Mesa is a
very large suburb with well over 400,000 people. In fact Mesa itself, is larger
than the cities of Cincinatti, St. Louis and Buffalo, (probably as a result of many
people leaving those upper midwest/rust-belt cities for the sunshine of Arizona).
www.visitmesa.com .



Mesa has grown mainly through sprawling sub-divisions and retirement
communties. The top photo has a view of the San-Tan Freeway
(AZ202 running vertical in photo, and US 60, (horizontal).The growth of the
freeway system has pushed Mesa, (and the Phoenix area
further east). To the left of the intersection and in the 2nd photo, you see two
of Mesa's many modular-home retirement communties













The third photo down has a viw of downtown Mesa. You can tell how suburban
in nature Mesa is with only two buildings in dowtown for a city of 400,000. The
white building in the center of the photo is Mesa City Hall. www.cityofmesa.org .









The bottom photo shows the rush hour of cars commuting Northbound on
AZ 101
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