A transportation project decades in the making is officially complete, connecting downtown and midtown Tucson with the Interstate 10 corridor while adding new pedestrian, bicycle and drainage infrastructure.
City officials celebrated the opening of the Downtown Links project Friday with a ribbon-cutting ceremony, marking the end of the city’s largest transportation project since the Sun Link Streetcar.
The project, which connects Sixth Street with the I-10 corridor, has been years in the making, with its origins dating back to the 1980s. Its first section was completed in 1995, but subsequent planning, funding and construction delays stretched the timeline considerably…