Ron O live in palm springs area and have taken every route - take a look at using I-17 down to the new 303 and then the 60 back up to Aguila I am pretty sure it is shorter and way less '2 lane time'........................rick traffic should not be bad until Monday on the 17
Bottom line is on Memorial Day weekend none of our roads are safe.. too many crazy drivers drinking and/or in a hurry out there. Drive defensively and with your head on swivel. I read ADOT just got some funding to widen more of 93 - considering so many in this part of the State use it to travel to Phoenix it should have been widened long ago - both it and 95 are heavily-used and marginal roads.
The split part of the 93 is great. It would be great and a lot safer if they could split the entire highway.