Urban University Interface.com

STREETSBLOG USA raps up the results of more than 2 years of debate over the stretch along Broadway from Euclid to Country Club in a poignant editorial called Pima County Holds Better Sidewalks Hostage to Get a Road Expansion.  Many should agree with the gist of this conclusion.  Broadway’s 2nd to last bottleneck settles for 6 lanes at a political and cultural cost.  The last bottleneck is the snarly entrance into downtown. Yes, we are stuck with that. Sunshine Mile RIP.  Like many important cultural attributes of Tucson heritage, what perpetuates cultural losses to new development is a lack of community design engagement.  Many things could have happened on the Sunshine Mile, but the resolve to engage was not a factor in the outcome.   Not even a 2 1/2 year task force protocol can overcome having its creative juices drained by  abasing civic duty and hidden agendas.  Read the article for a quick summary of what we have moving forward with somewhat of a blank slate.