Tucson ― Transportation Plan OKd

Rail Transit Online, April 2007

An open house was held on Mar. 21 by the Tucson Department of Transportation to update the public on a planned four-mile (6.4 km) streetcar line.  Planners now forecast average daily ridership of about 4,200, with service running on a 10-min. headway between 6 a.m. and 2 a.m.  The route will run from the University Medical Center to the University of Arizona campus, through downtown and terminating at the Rio Nuevo cultural center.  “It could be one of the most successful transit routes in Tucson,” project manager Shellie Ginn told KOLD-TV News.  The $100-million project will need up to six streetcars.  The city will apply for federal funding to match the local share approved by voters May 2006.