“Voters made it clear Tuesday that they want this town’s traffic woes to hit the road” declared an editorial (17 May 2006) in the Arizona Daily Star – which had backed the ballot items proposing a Regional Transportation Plan (a comprehensive bus transit/streetcar/roadway improvement program).
Tucson streetcar simulation Advocates of transit and urban livability have scored a major victory in Tucson, with voters’ approval on Tuesday, 16 May 2006, of this plan, and its funding via a new half-cent sales tax increment. The “crown jewel” of the plan is a modern light rail transit (LRT) streetcar system that will initially traverse a 4-mile route from the University Medical Center, through the University of Arizona campus, then through downtown, and finally terminating at the Rio Nuevo master plan area.
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