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Highway Capacity Transit System Plan - Final Report June 2009 Development of Updated HCT System Plan • Broadway Boulevard at Park Mall (northeast corner of parking lot) • Broadway Boulevard at Wilmot Road (northeast corner of intersection) • Broadway Boulevard at Kolb Road (northwest corner of intersection) • Broadway Boulevard at Pantano Road (southeast corner of intersection) • Broadway Boulevard at Harrison Road (southwest corner of intersection) • Broadway Boulevard at Houghton Road (northwest corner of intersection) • Nogales Highway at Drexel Road (northwest corner of intersection) • Nogales Highway at Valencia Road (northwest corner of intersection) The project team notes that, as of January 2009, the City of Tucson was in the process of acquiring the land for the Broadway Boulevard/Houghton Road park‐and‐ride lot. The potential for the other sites to become park‐and‐ride lots depends on the willingness of the current property owners to sell or lease land. Changes to Local Bus Network Possible changes to local bus service in the Broadway Boulevard corridor are as follows: • Route 8 currently provides local bus service on Broadway Boulevard between downtown and Harrison Road. The route jogs north on Harrison Road to serve a park‐and‐ride lot at Speedway Boulevard. Route 8 is likely to continue providing local service along Broadway Boulevard in Phase 1 to maintain accessibility to the origins and destinations along the corridor given that BRT service overlaid on Route 8 will have substantially wider station spacing and the BRT service will divert to 6th Street to serve UA. In Phase 2, local bus service need not serve every stop where Route 8 overlaps with streetcar, so Route 8 could be cut back (e.g., truncated or operated as skip‐stop) when and where streetcar is implemented. With a new park‐and‐ride lot at Broadway Boulevard/Houghton Road, Route 8 is planned to be realigned to serve the new lot rather than the existing park‐andride lot at Speedway Boulevard/Harrison Road. The existing park‐and‐ride lot could continue to be served by Route 4 and Route 201X on Speedway. • Route 108X currently provides express bus service on Broadway between downtown and Harrison Road and terminates at the park‐and‐ride lot at Speedway Boulevard/Harrison Road. This route could be discontinued if BRT is implemented in the corridor. Possible changes to local bus service in the 6th Avenue/Nogales Highway corridor are as follows: • Route 8 currently provides local bus service on 6th Avenue between downtown and Laos Transit Center. This route could be discontinued if streetcar is implemented in the corridor in Phase 2. • Route 50 and Route 11 currently operate along a short segment of 6th Avenue between Ajo Way and Irvington Road in order to provide service to Laos Transit Center. These routes could continue with no changes. 132
Highway Capacity Transit System Plan - Final Report June 2009 Development of Updated HCT System Plan • Route 202X currently provides express service along Nogales Highway between Laos Transit Center, and Raytheon. BRT would provide express service between downtown and TIA via Laos Transit Center, but would not serve the Raytheon area. To maintain service to the Raytheon area, Route 202X could be continued. Likewise, Route 201X (which currently provides express service along Valencia Road to serve Raytheon and the Palo Verde corridor) could be continued. Coordination with Tucson Modern Streetcar There are several options for connecting to or extending the Tucson Modern Streetcar route with respect to the corridors in System Alternative A, and none of the options appear at this time to be fatally flawed. The issues to be addressed in project development include the following: • What alignment options exist for the new streetcar services? • Should the new streetcar lines serve Ronstadt Transit Center? • Where will the new streetcar lines cross the UPRR into downtown? Are there any grade issues? • Will turning radius requirements limit where and how the connections may be made? • How will streetcar service be operated? Will the modern streetcar and the extended streetcar lines be operated as one service or as separate services? At this level of planning, it appears that connecting a new streetcar service on 6th Avenue to the Tucson Modern Streetcar may present the most substantial challenge in System Alternative A. This is because the 6th Avenue line is likely to overlap the modern streetcar downtown, with the overlap occurring in the mid‐route portion of the downtown streetcar line. Operating the new streetcar service as an extension of the modern streetcar (e.g., offering a transfer‐free service between points north and south of downtown Tucson) may not be desirable given that the overlap will limit the amount of service that can be provided on the western half of the modern streetcar alignment and the entirety of the 6th Avenue streetcar alignment. Streetcar service on Broadway Boulevard is not likely to be operated in conjunction with the modern streetcar because the lines do not overlap and because both run roughly east‐west and provide parallel service just east of downtown Tucson and at UA. They will intersect at or near Ronstadt Transit Center. 6.3.3 System Alternative B System Alternative B is shown in Figure 62 and Figure 64. System Alternative B is a phased implementation of HCT that includes the following features: • BRT service on Broadway Boulevard from downtown Tucson to Houghton Road, with service to UA (Phase 1) • Streetcar on Broadway Boulevard from downtown Tucson to El Con Mall (Phase 2) 133
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