The new year brings a number of new (and old) transportation projects to the region, including the continued widening of Broadway Boulevard between Country Club Road and downtown, long-planned improvements to Sabino Canyon Road and much-needed repairs to Oracle Road.
City of Tucson officials anticipate wrapping up the widening of Broadway Boulevard between Country Club Road and Euclid Avenue to three lanes in each direction in September 2021. The project, which will also include better bike lanes and sidewalks, is a partnership between Tucson, Pima County and Regional Transportation Authority.
The city will also continue work on the Downtown Links project. The new roadway is essentially the long-planned last mile of Aviation Highway, although it has been scaled back considerably from what was planned decades ago. Running alongside the Union Pacific Railroad tracks for most part, the roadway will stretch from the current end of Aviation at Broadway Boulevard to Sixth Street, with
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A new report analyzing the U.S. road conditions and how money is spent on improving them, shows Arizona has some of the best roads in the nation.
The report comes from California-based finance company MoneyGeek, which accumulated data from U.S. Department of Transportation and the Congressional Budget Office.
It found that Arizonaâs roads obtained a roughness score of 78.7, which is âa composite roughness score of all major urban roadways in each stateâ using federal transportation data. The company weighed each category of measured pavement roughness and aggregated the information across the entire state system.
The Federal Highway Administration indicates that a roughness measure of less than 95 indicates a road in good condition, between 95 and 170 is acceptable and greater than 170 is poor condition, the company said.