With the opening of Airmen Memorial Bridge, eastsiders now have an option to avoid the fustercluck intersection of Grant/Kolb/Tanque Verde roads: A direct link between Kolb and Sabino Canyon roads.
The $12.3 million RTA project was controversial—some of the neighbors living west of Udall Park were fiercely opposed to plan—but the idea was to reduce traffic at Grant/Kolb/Tanque Verde by creating a new bridge over the Pantano Wash. The route should also reduce the number of people who need to head north by turning left at the intersection of Tanque Verde and Sabino Canyon roads.
The new bridge is named for 18 airmen who died following a mid-air collision of two B-24 Liberators on a training mission over the Pantano Wash on Nov. 30, 1944, according to city spokesman Michael Graham.
This article appears in Jan 5-11, 2017.
Great job City of Tucson! This will provide some relief. When will we get an agreement with the County to extend Snyder Rd to Sabino Canyon? That would relieve all the Tanque Verde congestion of drivers that have no need to come down Sabino Canyon only to have to go back up the mountain on another road to reach their destination.
Steve Christy may be the key to getting this going. It would save millions of road miles, reduce air pollution, provide better access to emergency services, and preserve fuel supplies. Not to mention cutting drive time congestion for thousands of up to 20 minutes each way.
Is “fustercluck” an appropriate term for a professional journalist to be using in an article. C’mon MAN !
You’re asking for professional journalism from the Tucson Weekly? I appreciate the cheekiness
Second that, TDENTON1138. TW has never been constrained by journalistic ethics. Not their job.
Well I don’t know where this 12.3 mill came from or if you folks know what traffic congestion really is,that being said come up to phx and drive our roads and then make a statement that isn’t ridiculous sounding to people who actually have that problem,and oh by the way. Might I suggest that 12.3 mill of tax payers $$ could’ve been better served to improve ya’lls bus system its so behind the times its shameful. Thank you and just something to really put tax money toward signed M.M phx native w/ Tucson roots
Is there a map available that shows where the bridge runs?
Yes but it’s buried under the W just like Mad Mad Mad Mad World and whoever finds it will be rich.