Complete Street Implementation in Tucson

Abstract

This study will focus on the implementation of Complete streets in Tucson, AZ and the associated impacts and requirements needed to successfully integrate these projects into the community. As a city predominantly catering towards the automobile, the majority of roads in Tucson lack the fundamentals of non-automobile transit and pedestrian use. With many other forms of transportation available, the city of Tucson must accommodate these other forms of transit to create a well-rounded, strengthened community. Helping accommodate a larger percentage of the total population, the implementation of complete streets would offer safe access for its pedestrian, bicyclist, motorist and transit users at the same time. By creating a community that can effortlessly move and travel by a variety of means, the addition of complete streets in Tucson would yield countless social, economic and environmental benefits. While the implementation of complete streets seems like a worthwhile investment in any community, there are many logistics that play a role in the feasibility of similar projects. With issues such as construction size, time, cost and communal acceptance, complete streets must overcome a number of challenges before taking shape. Through study and analysis, this study will answer the question of how the Tucson community can successfully incorporate complete streets with sufficient funding and backing by the community. Through analysis of other project cases and various data acquisition, this study will focus on a successful complete street proposal for the city of Tucson.