February 3, 2012
The installation of a new stop sign on northbound 6th Avenue at 7th Street will occur on Monday, February 6. The new stop sign will initiate a temporary three-way stop at the intersection. This traffic control change is in preparation of converting Sixth Avenue to two-way traffic between Sixth and Seventh Streets. When complete, the [...]
January 30, 2012
The outdoor events for Tucson’s AZ Centennial Celebration will close four streets in the downtown core. Information below includes the times for the closures for each of the four streets. 6th Ave is closed between Congress St & Pennington St: Closed Fri, Feb 10 from 6am to Sun, Feb 12, 3am (early morning) Scott Ave [...]
January 17, 2012
The City of Tucson and Regional Transportation Authority (RTA) are accepting applications for a Citizen Task Force to help shape improvements to Broadway Boulevard, mainly adding traffic, transit and bicycle lanes. To form the Task Force, applications have been mailed to about 8,500 residents in and around the Broadway project corridor, which extends from Euclid [...]
January 12, 2012
Thursday, January 12, through Friday, January 20, Fourth Avenue will be reduced to one travel lane between Sixth and Eighth Streets while the contractor installs underground utilities in the area. From 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. flaggers will direct alternate one-way travel through the work area. The contractor will open the road to two travel [...]
January 10, 2012
On Saturday, January 14, Scott and 5th Avenues between Congress and Broadway will be closed from 9 a.m. until 5 a.m. the next morning for 2nd Saturdays. The sounds of award-winning jazz and a “spot on” Beatles tribute will drift over Downtown Tucson for the popular event. The free, outdoor Scott Avenue Stage, just south [...]
January 9, 2012
Beginning Monday, January 9, CEI Construction, in conjunction with work for the University of Arizona, will be performing underground utility work in the westbound lanes of 6th Street between 4th Avenue and 5th Avenue. All westbound traffic will be detoured to the center turn lane for approximately 300 feet. Within the detour, left turns will [...]
January 9, 2012
Work throughout the 8th Street Drainage Improvement area will require multiple street closures and restrictions that will impact motorists, bicyclists and pedestrians in the neighborhood around the 4th Avenue shopping area. The Eighth Street Drainage Improvement project limits extend from Sixth Avenue on the west to Third Avenue on the east and Sixth Street on [...]
January 5, 2012
Beginning Thursday, January 5, 2012, at 9 a.m., the left curb lane of Congress Street at Scott Avenue will be closed to traffic to allow work crews from Diversified Construction, under contract to Tucson Electric Power, to perform underground utility work in preparation for the Modern Streetcar Project. The project is scheduled to be completed [...]
December 27, 2011
The 8th Street Drainage Improvement project will bring various street closures in the coming days to the area bounded by 6th Avenue on the west to 3rd Avenue on the east and by 6th Street on the north to Stevens Avenue on the south. This project falls in and around the popular 4th Avenue shopping [...]
December 19, 2011
By Teya Vitu Several new street markings will guide cars and bicycles through the Congress-4thAvenue-Toole intersection. There are new bicycle markings with a pair of chevrons and green strips of paint along the curbs by the Centro Garage and emerging from the 4th Avenue Underpass. These street marking came on December 9 while the underpass [...]