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Getting back in gear
Greetings from the Living Streets Alliance team and happy monsoons! This month we're jumping back into community outreach events with the City, supporting street specific surveying, and keeping a pulse on national policy changes to come. Join us for a cool treat or a bike-in movie and say hello. We've missed seeing your faces and look forward to connecting in real time and space as things open back up here in Tucson.
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(Click on the photo to see a larger map of the different projects in motion for PROP 407)
The Move Tucson project list is live
By now, hopefully you're familiar with Move Tucson, the city-wide mobility plan being developed as a way to implement Tucson's Complete Streets policy. For the past several months the Department of Transportation & Mobility (DTM) has been working to 1) analyze existing conditions of our transportation network and 2) gain an understanding of community priorities. Taking those things into account, they've identified 234 projects— totaling approximately $5.7 billion dollars—to make Tucson's transportation system more complete.
Check out their online map + share your thoughts >>
This is a key moment to help them further prioritize which of the projects is implemented first. Make sure to take the survey and share your thoughts and priorities! Your input helps shape this very important transportation initiative that will guide Tucson's growth for generations to come.
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Three more Bicycle Boulevard projects about to roll out
Plans are now underway for three more bicycle boulevard projects in Tucson funded by the RTA. The Department of Transportation & Mobility is hoping to hear from those of you who live near one of these corridors or travel on them by bike or on foot:
- 5th Street from Euclid Ave to 6th Ave
- 9th/8th Street from 4th Ave to Treat Ave
- 9th/Castro Avenue from 6th St to Ft. Lowell Rd
This is an opportunity to fine-tune the alignment of these corridors, create safer crossings at intersections with major roadways, and install traffic calming at key locations.
Learn more >>
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Bike-in Movie & Ice Cream Social
Saturday, July 24th | 6:00-9:00pm
(Open house ends and movie screening begins at 7:45pm)
Balboa Heights Park | 2536 N Castro Ave
If you live in the neighborhood, swing by for a free movie screening and ice cream! Bring a picnic blanket to sit on and while you're at it, learn about traffic-calming opportunities coming to Castro and 9th Avenues soon. Folks from the City of Tucson will be at the event ready to hear from you and share information.
Add to your calendar >>
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Curbside Ice Cream Social
Thursday, July 29th | 5:30-8:30pm
SE corner of 4th Ave and 9th St
If you live, walk, bike, work or commute along 9th Street, find us at the corner to share your thoughts about 9th Street Bicycle Boulevard. Grab your free ice cream and chat with folks from the City about a variety of safety and traffic-calming enhancements on the table for this corridor.
Add to your calendar >>
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Corridor makeover time! Share your priorities for First Avenue's transformation
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As an RTA-funded project, 1st Avenue is about to change drastically between Grant Road and River Road. This is currently a high-crash corridor, with lots of foot and bike traffic, and the redesign provides an opportunity to make it much safer for people on foot and on bike. We at LSA are strong supports of less lanes (4 vs. 6) and fully protected bicycle lanes. Find out why on our website, and make sure to take the project survey online to voice your support for safer roadway conditions for every one of us! Learn about the Needs Assessment happening now and take the survey below.
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Weigh in on preliminary Blacklidge Bike Boulevard safety enhancements
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If you ride, walk or live on Blacklidge Drive, positive changes are headed your way, and you can now see what they might look like. Based on feedback gathered at community events over the past few months, Tucson Transportation & Mobility has put together an initial design for a traffic-calmed corridor. You can review it by clicking on the button below and right now is your chance to help them tweak and fine-tune placement of key traffic-calming elements like speed humps, traffic circles, and more.
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Tell PAG + RTA to get with it!
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The biggest source of funding for transportation projects in the Tucson region is the RTA (Regional Transportation Plan), a 1/2 cent sales tax that's due to sunset in 2026. Right now is a key time to make sure than any reauthorization aligns with the priorities and needs of Tucsonans. FUGA Tucson is organizing a petition to put diversity and environmental stewardship at the forefront. Check it out and make sure to gign it if you have not already done so!
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Biden closes on $579 billion transportation contract
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The biggest federal investment in infrastructure in more than a hundred years just got contracted. If you’re a tad skeptical about what this deal might mean for The War on Cars, you have good reason. How could the money be spent?
{Image: Justin Merriman/Bloomberg}
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To jaywalk or to not jaywalk?
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What's the full story around jaywalking and where does it come from? Here's a good primer on jaywalking and auto lobbies taking over streets to catch us up to current efforts to decriminalize jaywalking.
{Image: Duke Makangila via Creative Commons }
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Curbs + COVID
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Local governments got creative to align curbside management with COVID-19 response efforts. While curb improvements largely occurs at the local level, there are a handful of policy actions states and the federal government can take to support local governments’ ability to efficiently and equitably manage their curb.
{Image: San Francisco SFMTA shared street}
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The mission of Living Streets Alliance is to advocate for a thriving Tucson by creating great streets for all of us.
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