The long-anticipated stretch of roadway aimed at improving east-west traffic flow and flood mitigation in downtown Tucson has hit a delay due to utility coordination challenges.
Construction of the Downtown Links Improvement Project, originally scheduled to conclude by late 2025, has been pushed into the first quarter of 2026, the City of Tucson’s Department of Transportation and Mobility confirmed.
The $76 million project, part of the voter-approved Regional Transportation Authority plan, seeks to connect Barraza Aviation Parkway to St. Mary’s Road through a multimodal corridor featuring new roadways, a box culvert underground to reduce flooding, an overpass at 6th Avenue, an underpass at 6th Street to eliminate at-grade railroad crossings, a deck plaza, and improved bicycle and pedestrian facilities…