08.12.10 - Work to improve the intersection of Mission Road/Grande Avenue and Starr Pass Boulevard will begin on Monday, Aug. 16. The $2.9 million project will feature a new additional travel lane from the northbound Mission Road ramp to eastbound Starr Pass Boulevard, new drainage facilities, new sidewalks, improved bicycle lanes, new street lights, new asphalt and new landscaping. The project is scheduled to be completed in May 2011. The RTA funded project is managed by the City of Tucson.

08.03.10 - Concrete will be poured between 8 p.m. and 8 a.m. starting on the evening of Aug. 5 to form the bridge deck on the southbound lanes (west side of the roadway) on Sabino Canyon Road Bridge at Tanque Verde Creek. The Pima County project is funded with RTA funds and federal economic stimulus funds. The bridge project is expected to be completed within six weeks.

For more info on previous RTA Project Bulletins, click here.

• RTA Economic Impact Study

Projects of the $2.1 billion Regional Transportation Authority plan are funded by a half-cent transaction privilege tax (also known as a sales tax), which was approved by Pima County voters in May 2006. The 20-year plan includes road, transit, safety, and environmental and economic vitality projects.

The Regional Transportation Authority is managed by Pima Association of Governments. For more information about PAG, please click here.

The FY 2008-09 RTA Annual Report information is now available online. Please click here.

No events are scheduled at this time.

06.03.10 - Manufacturing of streetcars to begin

02.19.10 - LaHood cheered as he signs over streetcar funds
02.18.10 - $63 million in U.S. funds make streetcar a go

For more streetcar news, click here.

The next RTA Board meeting is tentatively scheduled for noon on Sept. 30, 2010, at 177 N. Church Ave., Tucson, in Pima Association of Governments' 5th floor conference room.

For the latest updates for all RTA meetings and events, click on Meetings/Events.

For more information about the RTA Board, please click here.

No project meetings are scheduled at this time.

• TransView

Please see the document below to view facts about the RTA plan and associated costs. The facts clarify and correct information that was presented on July 18 in a front page article of the Arizona Daily Star. Please direct questions to Sheila Storm, Communications Director, at (520) 792-1093.

• RTA Facts (451KB pdf)
• 07.25.10 - CART Committee Letter/Guest Editorial (Arizona Daily Star) 

If you live in Marana, Oro Valley/Catalina, Green Valley/Sahuarita, Tucson Estates or San Xavier, you can access the Sun Shuttle neighborhood transit service. Ride the Sun Shuttle to school, your doctor's appointment, the grocery store or other destinations. Connect with Sun Tran. Try it today and reduce your travel costs!

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