Vibrant streets for everyone
Programs
Paradigm shift is possible through the steady application of creativity, resources, and support for new ways of being in the world. Our programs create lasting change over time by creating fun and new ways for people to experience their community outside of their car.
Cyclovia Tucson
Cyclovia Tucson is our biannual celebration of community that brings people together to walk, bike, socialize, and play in car-free, care-free streets. Click below to find out how to volunteer, get your business involved, host an activity at our next event, or simply participate!
Safe Routes to School
All children deserve to have safe streets to walk, bike, play, and interact with their community! Through Safe Routes to School (SRTS), we provide support to local K-8 schools so that walking and biking to school can be an easy, safe, and enjoyable way to get around for children and their families.
Advocacy
We advocate for public policies and funding that ensure the safe and dignified movement of every one of us, no matter who we are, nor how we get around. Through strategic collaborations and partnerships, we bring voices together to push and advocate for systemic changes that will create a more just transportation network for our region, and a better quality of life for everyone within it.
An RTA Next that aligns with community needs & priorities
A proposal for billions in transportation investment will go before Pima County voters in November 2025. If passed RTA Next will extend the region’s half cent sales tax for another twenty years. Let’s ensure it reduces our dependency on private automobiles and increases our transportation options; supports cleaner air quality, and provides resiliency and adaptability amid climate change; reduces crashes and deaths in our streets and makes them truly safer; and so much more. Does the current proposal do that?
Permanent fare-free transit
In 2020, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Tucson Mayor & Council eliminated fares for transit it Tucson, making it free for everyone. As federal pandemic-relief funding disappears Tucson has faced the choice of whether to start charging fares again or whether to find new ways of keeping transit free, permanently. Together, as part of the Transit for All Coalition, we’ve successfully advocated and avoided the return of transit fares in Tucson, but the it’s not over yet.
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Complete Streets
Complete Streets is a way of designing and building our streets to ensure a safe and welcoming experience for all people regardless of their age, ability, income, race, or ethnicity, whether they are walking, biking, driving, or taking public transit.
Services
Living Streets Alliance’s team of experts are ready and available to help you reshape your streets, whether it’s getting your business’ parklet or streatery off the ground, working with you and your neighbors to implement creative traffic calming solutions, or provide nontraditional outreach and engagement to ensure more community voices are brought to the decision-making table.
Special Event Bike Parking + Bike Valet
Tucson’s a great place for bicycling which means that bike parking fills up fast! Living Streets Alliance is here to provide a variety of bike parking solutions for your next big event including bike rack rentals and full-service bike valet. Breath easier with up 70 eco-friendly parking spots for guests and participants who arrive on bikes.
Neighborhood Traffic Calming Assistance
Traffic speeding through neighborhood streets is a real problem in Tucson. Our Neighborhood Traffic Calming Assistance service provides a step-by-step process to help you and your neighbors find ways to calm traffic in your area.
Neighborhood Walkability Assessments
Through our Neighborhood Walkability Assessment service, we work with you and your neighborhood to observe and document walking conditions in your area, facilitate conversations and brainstorming about how to improve conditions, and come up with a variety of ways to make those improvements happen.
Expanded Spaces, Engaging Places Business Assistance Program
Transforming underutilized asphalt into places for people to dine, drink, shop, and walk with safe physical distancing has helped businesses of all sizes get back up and running during the pandemic. We’re here to help get your streatery, flex zone, or parklet off the ground, quickly and affordably.