Develop Historic Broadway NOT wastefully widen the roadway

Agree. Widening Broadway is an obsolete plan.

This development does not even have to happen. Too many historic buildings are being torn down that are on the registry. I live in the neighborhood and don't want the increased traffic and the restrictions of getting in and out of the neighborhood being blocked permanently. Kill this overpriced plan that is an old plan and not needed.

This is a foolish plan. Once again, the COT chooses to ignore its history, waste taxpayers money and pander to poor developers with no sense of place.

This is not what our city needs. Too much money for something that won't work for us. Stop this destruction now. Please don't do more damage to our city. Traffic is not that bad that so much demolishing must take place. This is not what we Tucsonans want. STOP. Too many changes have been made and paid for that were unnecessary and money spent in the wrong way. STOP.

I was disappointed to hear that what was being presented to the mayor and city council was different from what had been originally agreed upon. I would be very unhappy to see the destruction of the old Table Talk building and the buildings to the west of it. I think they might also qualify for Historic designation. I think it is a shame to obliterate parts of the history of Tucson in the name of progress.

At a time when we are looking for ways to end our dependence on automobiles, why are we widening roads to encourage more use of automobiles. And at a high cost of destroying not just historic home, but a part of Tucson's unique history. It make no sense. Do we need to take this to a court of law to end this lunacy? Maybe that's what it will take.

I live at CountryClub and Broadway and am quite involved and knowledgable about the details

I live at 3263 E Broadway - about 5 houses east of Country Club and we have been here since 2003. There is NO need for widening Broadway, there is not sufficient traffic to warrant this project. It is a waste of time and money and will diminish the taxes these buildings and homes generate. NOt only that the public is not interested in having this shoved down our throats.

1) A Waste. There has been no significant increase in Traffic. 2) By encouraging increased traffic, it will cause disastrous bottlenecks on Broadway going West into Congress. It is already pretty bad. 3) I am a bike rider, but I completely oppose DEADLY BICYCLE LANES along all or most major arteries such as Broadway. They give only the ILLUSION of SAFETY to cyclists. That is where most bicycle-car accidents happen, including deadly ones. Instead, we should have BICYCLE ROUTES on 9th and 8th Streets: residential, safe, quiet, enjoyable, and at essentially nominal cost!!! Dr. Jean-Paul Bierny

This has never been a sound idea and with time grows less and less so. Stop it!

We should NOT widen Historic Broadway.

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Historic resources are non-renewable. You don't just "rebuild" history; once tangible links are gone, they' gone forever. This project is irresponsible financially and a betrayal of public input. The Mayor and Council should be ashamed to approve it.

This project doesn't make sense anymore. I don't care if most of it is funded with federal funds. It is still wasteful.

RECALL MAYOR ROTHSCHILD

We don't need this. And it is time to recall Mayor Rothcshild. Steve Kozachik for MAYOR!

This will only cause a worse case of traffic jam coming in to downtown.

The Broadway design team has had as starting point the serving of the car. This is first and foremost about how cars can be accommodated moving through, not to the area. This is evident in the design and in the language used by staff, consultants and even the City Manager. Perceptions of “functionality,” descriptions of “corridor,” and “moving through,” etc. reveal this agenda. Widening the road, making bigger lanes than have existed for decades, creating bus pull outs - which slow bus progress in favor of the car, failing to commit to dedicated bus lanes, no development of a bus rapid transit system, creating median barriers, no transit study and other obvious clues clearly show this orientation. This is an almost unquestioned bias. The irony is that people sitting in cars will receive very, very little benefit and then for only a fairly brief period of time. We need leadership that has the courage to challenge this thinking and action. If the Broadway Project cannot make things better for anyone outside of a car and very little benefit for the declining numbers of those sitting (often alone) in cars, we need to start asking why in heavens name are we throwing millions and millions of dollars at it? More and more people are now recognizing that this is a boondoggle. The only time it has received citizen attention, the citizens have declared they want a truly context sensitive design and they don’t want their money wasted. With the City dramatically reducing staff, facing layoffs, raising other taxes (and bus fees?) to balance the budget, people are asking why the City sees fit to pull money from really improving roads and everything else to pay for something like this. Fair question, don’t you think?

Initiatives to develop Tucson like the street car and host of other projects were completed with cost overrun and I would like to know why this project won't fall in that category.

Our town does not want this!

Voter approval based on long-ago faulty projections should not prevent us from reconsidering new information