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Develop Historic Broadway NOT wastefully widen the roadway

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Elizabeth Davison
10 years ago

Please use common sense to improve Broadway -- don't spend money to widen it!

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Sarah Launius
10 years ago

The only way this plan could be useful is if the additional lane is for bus traffic only as part of a rapid transit system. If not the project should not move forward.

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Lauren Zentz
10 years ago

There's no evidence that road widening improves travel times. Improve your public transportation, bike lanes, and resources for bikers at the workplace so that they don't have to worry about showing up to work sweaty.

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Suzanne Bott
10 years ago

Broadway is a wonderful street that is plenty wide, so please do not demolish the corridor's historic fabric. Beautification and traffic calming are what's needed most.

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George Michael Hakim
10 years ago

Traffic on Broadway is not like old-school Grant Road. A widened road, or mini-highway, will lead to further separation of neighborhoods on either side of it, potentially widening not only the road, but class divisions. Other cities around the world are developing downtowns and satellite commercial neighborhoods as fun, funky spaces where communities come together. None achieve this level of cohesion by shutting out pedestrian and bike traffic in favor of cars.

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Bernie Croteau
10 years ago

$74 Million to save 6 seconds----The Math does not add up!! Disrespecting the neighborhoods that spent a lot of time and energy to become Historic is wrong! Not caring about our Historic buildings or what the people have to say is also wrong! DO IT RIGHT OR DON'T DO IT AT ALL!!!

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Armando E Bernal
10 years ago

why feed into more cars?

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ted
10 years ago

Why is widening B'way even being proposed?

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Shelley Wilson
10 years ago

Please do the right thing and listen to the people of Tucson.

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Anonymous
10 years ago

I believe traffic flow would be greatly improved with just bus pull-outs, right-turn lanes and well-working traffic light timing with much less impact

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Marc Fink
10 years ago

Why is the City of Tucson embracing mediocrity?

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Sandra Holland
10 years ago

Please reconsider the use of valuable resources being spent on such a small change to traffic flow - particularly in the context of losing historic landscapes that cannot be regained.

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Christina Hamaley
10 years ago

None

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Sarah Humphrey
10 years ago

It's a piece of history!

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Matthew Lowen
10 years ago

More bike lanes! More sidewalks! And more shade and enjoyable spaces.

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Rachel Wilson
10 years ago

Please don't do this.

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Jim cook
10 years ago

We destroyed historic downtown in the 60's ..don't do it again

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Rebecca Zapien
10 years ago

I would like to see Broadway not widened for the sake of keeping communities connected. I would like for the city to invest on more diverse streets that incorporate pedestrians and cyclists instead of car centric roads.

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Kylie Walzak
10 years ago

Wider roads kill vulnerable people -- our children, people with disabilities, our seniors -- by making it more dangerous and more difficult to leave neighborhoods and connect to destinations. This is not the legacy I want to leave behind for my children or grandchildren. I love Tucson, let's make it more beautiful, comfortable and safer for people and for the future. Let's not widen any roads, rather let's focus on creating better options for getting people out of cars to get where we need and want to go. We've given too much space to cars in this region, its time to balance the system.

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Christina Medvescek
10 years ago

Make Broadway into a natural continuation of the imaginative work done in the downtown area.