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Best Bus Station
Tohono Tadai Transit Station
4540 N. Stone Ave.
STAFF PICK: The Tohono Tadai Transit Station is
like a glimpse into some parallel universe where Tucson is a well-run
city with a world-class public transportation system. With benches
rumored to be air-conditioned (we haven't experienced this ourselves)
and imaginative urban design, Tohono Tadai actually feels inviting.
At night, the purple, pyramidic shade ramadas light up and, from
a distance, take on the translucent quality of some sort of manmade
amethyst geode. Our favorite innovations, however, are architect
Bob Vint's playful, cast-concrete sculptures in the middle of
the station. While parents flip through the paper and wait for
the bus, pint-sized future power-brokers draw their battle lines
in the sand. At this crossroads to some other dimension, bulldozers
are aesthetically appealing, and horned-toads are blessed with
a fighting chance. Maybe if we get on the right bus, we can get
there.
STAFF PICK: The Tohono Tadai Transit Station is
like a glimpse into some parallel universe where Tucson is a well-run
city with a world-class public transportation system. With benches
rumored to be air-conditioned (we haven't experienced this ourselves)
and imaginative urban design, Tohono Tadai actually feels inviting.
At night, the purple, pyramidic shade ramadas light up and, from
a distance, take on the translucent quality of some sort of manmade
amethyst geode. Our favorite innovations, however, are architect
Bob Vint's playful, cast-concrete sculptures in the middle of
the station. While parents flip through the paper and wait for
the bus, pint-sized future power-brokers draw their battle lines
in the sand. At this crossroads to some other dimension, bulldozers
are aesthetically appealing, and horned-toads are blessed with
a fighting chance. Maybe if we get on the right bus, we can get
there.