Develop Historic Broadway NOT wastefully widen the roadway

Save Larua's! There are so many historic buildings along this stretch. We have Speedway, Grant, Golf Links, Aviation Hwy....Broadway seems adequate for the load.

Please do not continue with these ridiculous, insensitive plans. We expect better of our Mayor and Council members. Changing plans from agreed upon drafts is unconscionable and beyond understanding.

This seems to be ill-thought out and a waste of taxpayers money accomplishing nothing. Tucson's ability to retain it's older buildings with character and to retain a few empty lots to fill with seasonal vendors of pumpkins and Christmas trees is what sets our town high above the others that try to pave their entire footprint - and then complain about the increase in heat! Please don't allow this to go through!

What are the health implications of such projects? These considerations will save the City and taxpayers in the long run.

It's disturbing and frustrating to see that Tucson can't get pass antiquated paradigms of transportation planning. As a native Tucsonan and a millennial who has spent several years living in Chicago, I want options. Money is being throw away to widen roads that don't need widening instead of investing in smart transit systems and walkable communities. I love Tucson for so many reasons, but if it continues to keep growing this way, it will never thrive economically and won't be a viable place for younger people like myself to live.

I use this route daily, maybe 4 x daily and during rush hour, money should go elsewhere, and I'd hate o loose more charecter to generic development. Help out the businesses. Add better transportation, but don't demolish what's there. Yuck. Also isn't it proven if you widen it it makes more traffic and congestion?

Let's spend that money on historic preservervation and beautification of the area.

Have we not learned anything from previous gutting of neighborhoods for the sake of wider and wider road. More free, people friendly environments are needed - our souls depend on it.

Let's make a smart decision, not one we will regret.

Tucson is beautiful the way it is. Perhaps you should work on re-routing.

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I recall standing in the parking lot of The First Assembly of God church on Broadway at the not-so-busy rush hour listening to Kozachik explain why the widening of Broadway was unnecessary. I still agree with him and hope he and the council do the right thing.

I think it only needs right hand turn lanes at Tucson Blvd, Campbell and Highland. That would move traffic so much quicker.

Let's spend our resources wisely. Bicycle, pedestrian and handicap access and mobility can and should be improved at a much lower cost than throwing dozens of millions of dollars to negligibly, if at all, increase car traffic flow. Don't die defiantly; Live sustainably.

Please keep the 'real' Tucson alive. (too much has already gone.) Tourist come for that. People move here for that. People like me. And what a waste of money to make Tucson wide and ugly!

6 seconds of saved travel time, and only in the perfect conditions, costs $74M. The worst part about this statement is the belief that extra lanes actually reduce travel. If the people in charge actually kept up with developments of their profession they would be aware the any saving in travel time, shortly gets reduced back to congestion because more people will drive on the new roads, thus eliminating any benefit in travel time. As for the $74 million dollar cost, that many could be put to making our streetscape enjoyable destinations to frequent rather than noxious, dangerous, and unsettling places for pedestrians and bicyclists to be.

This is an unnecessary use of money and goes against what the public wants.

Waste of funds, & tragic loss of architecture. Not worth it!

6 seconds of saved travel time, and only in the perfect conditions, costs $74M. That reasoning is beyond reason. This money is better spent developing pedestrian and bike pass overs around the university area or some project to belt the downtown area. This is the most ridiculous use of extreme money for no produced benefit I have seen since Boston's Big Dig.

I would rather keep history than widen the road.

Leave Broadway alone. Grant road is being widened.