Subject: For our Friends in Tucson and surrounding communities.
Date: Thursday, December 01, 2005 11:18 AM

$2.1 billion Tucson transportation plan appears headed for ballot 

Associated Press
Dec. 1, 2005 07:15 AM 

 

TUCSON - A $2.1 billion plan to improve Tucson-area transportation over
the next 20 years appears headed to the May 16 ballot.

The Pima County Board of Supervisors will consider placing the Regional
Transportation Authority's plan on Dec. 13 and a proposal to impose a
half-cent sales tax to pay for it on the ballot.

"I fully anticipate that we will have a majority - if not a unanimous -
vote to place it on the ballot," board chairwoman Sharon Bronson said
Wednesday after the RTA board unanimously approved the final version of
the plan and formally requested that it and the tax question be included
on the ballot.

The plan includes 35 roadway-improvement projects in Tucson and
surrounding communities; expanded Sun Tran and other public-transit
services; enhancements and expansion of the area's pedestrian and
bicycle routes; and funding for wildlife corridors and assistance to
businesses affected by the projects.