Grant Road widening plan to be unveiled Oct. 15

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September 11, 2008, 9:04 p.m.
GARRY DUFFY
Tucson Citizen

A proposed alignment for a widened Grant Road from Oracle to Swan roads will be unveiled for the public next month, Tucson Department of Transportation officials told a City Council subcommittee Thursday.

"I think we have something that I think everyone is going to be pleased with," Andrew Singelakis, deputy director of the department, told the City Council Subcommittee on Transportation.

The preferred alignment will be presented at an Oct. 15 public meeting, Singelakis said.

It was not displayed at Thursday's subcommittee meeting.

Widening of Grant to three lanes in each direction with new intersections, landscaped medians, and additional bus pullouts will not start until 2013.

But the city will need to begin to acquire private property starting in 2009 for the widening.

The preferred alignment to be shown next month will provide a good indication to potentially affected property owners whether their parcels are likely to be targeted by the city for acquisition.

Singelakis said some minor adjustments to the preferred alignment may still take place before its October unveiling.

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Sep 26, 2008 @ 7:44pm
the RTA? What was that??? after what 2 years how many of them that was promised been released for bid? three or four maybe. just another way the great leaders of this community can get more money to waste on studies or projects that only benefit the selected few and go to out of town contractors that bought the project through other procument processes.
Sep 12, 2008 @ 3:11pm
This is why we actually voted down the RTA that they "told us" passed.
Sep 12, 2008 @ 2:28pm
Anytime ANY road in Tucson is even tried to be made better is GOOD!

While road jobs drag on and on and on, so be it...more folks are moving here, Tucson will never have sufficient roads for the traffic at hand...

and the Aviation Parkway to I-10 connection won't be happening in the lifetime of ANYONE that reads this!
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