The plan and tax were approved by voters in May 2006. The RTA collects a half-cent excise (sales) tax from its special taxing district within Pima County to fund its 20-year regional transportation plan. The Regional Transportation Authority, a political subdivision of the state and independently governed, has invested more than $1.2 billion in transportation projects and services to improve mobility, safety, economic vitality and quality of life in the region. Motorists traveling eastbound on Sixth Street west of Stone Avenue will continue to use the Church Avenue detour to bypass this closure. Sixth Street remains closed to through travel just west of Stone Avenue, while crews continue work at the Union Pacific Railroad tracks to construct a new underpass. The traveling public will use the new intersection configuration at Sixth Street, which will also allow motorists traveling northbound on Stone Avenue to proceed eastbound onto Sixth Street ( see map). On Wednesday, September 14, 2022, Stone Avenue at Sixth Street, including the Stone Avenue underpass, is scheduled to reopen to all northbound and southbound travel by 5 p.m.
Create the new signalized intersection at Church Avenue and Sixth Street.Build the retaining walls that allow for construction of the lowered Sixth Street.Build the Ninth Avenue HAWK for safe bicycle/pedestrian UPRR crossing.Build the Ninth Avenue bridge and deck plaza.
Build the temporary UPRR tracks (shoofly).Complete the temporary structure (shoring operation) that will function as the support for the UPRR while the contractor excavates beneath the existing railroad.Complete the box culvert construction and other drainage improvements.Weather, material allocation/supply, and coordination with the UPRR have all factored in the completion date of the project which is currently scheduled for summer 2024.įollowing is a summarized version of work that must be completed before opening the final section of Downtown Links, Sixth Street, between Stone and Church avenues: It includes key features such as the realignment of Sixth Street, an underpass beneath the Union Pacific Railroad (UPRR), a Deck Plaza crossing above the new alignment of Sixth Street (at Ninth Avenue) and a new pedestrian bridge crossing above Stone Avenue, north of the existing railroad underpass. The last, and most complicated section, of the entire Downtown Links Project – from Stone Avenue to Church Avenue – is currently under construction. New intersection at Sixth Street/Maclovio Barraza Parkway.Seventh Street/Seventh Avenue HAWK for safe bicycle/pedestrian roadway and UPRR crossing.MUP connection at Stevens Plaza Park near the Fourth Avenue underpass.Multi-Use-Path (MUP) along the entire eastside of Maclovio Barraza Parkway alignment.Intersection improvements at Broadway Boulevard/Maclovio Barraza Parkway.
Work completed along this portion of the Downtown Links Project include: The east half of the project, from Stone Avenue to Broadway Boulevard, is nearly complete, and will open for vehicle, bicycle and pedestrian use by mid-January 2023.
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