Eastside Bike Boulevard Phase I Outreach

29th and harrison is a dangerous intersection drivers don't respect the lights. as a person who walks daily with my dogs, i've almost been hit by cars 3 times. good luck because some drivers feel it's a race to see who can cross first

I too would love a way to ride from the eastside and connect to a east/west running bike path that takes me to the U of A.

Please extend Pima to the loop to allow those three neighborhoods access without having to bike on Speedway.

Can you extend the loop along the Tanque Verde wash all the way to Houghton? That would give access to the main loop to many more people.

Connection to Saguaro National Park East from the Loop would not only be convenient, it would increase safety greatly taking bikers off busy roads. Just make a connecting bike lane going east along Escalante off Harrison and through the wash to connect to the present bike lane east of the wash. Houghton/Irvington or Kenyon/OST are very busy roads for cyclists to use. Thanks!

It would be really helpful and make Wrightstown safer to add a bike lane going east and west.

I have not tried the Escalante connection between OST back to Pantano Wash because the description seems very convoluted. Will these improvements make it Treat Street Blvd. quality of signage? Those are top notch. I'm not sure from looking at this map that work is intended to make that connection crystal clear, but it would be a useful addition. I see many cyclists on OST/East Saguaro Park area.

29th is a sleeper secret to connect with Old Spanish Trail up to East Saguaro Park. The difficult piece is crossing Pantano. I second the request for a bike crossing at this spot. I've tried 22nd Street, and Kenyon also. 29th is my favorite, even with the poor pavement.

The biggest gap I notice is that there still will not be any bike/ped friendly way to cross from west of Pantano to this new network. If you live south of Grant or so, you have to either travel along a busy arterial route or go way out of your way north to get on the loop and then go back south to get onto one of these routes. I know bridges are expensive but it would be a game changer to have even a single option for traveling from wilmot east past Pantano without having to get onto speedway or Broadway. For instance something that connects rosewood to carondelet, across that wash at Jessica and then onward past Pantano. The whole area between wilmot and Pantano is just very tricky to navigate on bike or foot if you want to avoid cars and this project doesn't address that at all. This looks to be a great and much needed network within the Eastside but I really hope the city will also find a way to make connections BETWEEN midtown and the Eastside.

This section of the proposed bike path runs thru a heavily used pedestrian pathway in the Robb Wash Greenway, behind the Cottonwood Trails neighborhood. This is one of the few pedestrian pathways available for running or walking in this area of town. There is very little room to add a bike path, and doing so would be problematic for a couple reasons... 1) The path is currently dirt and is well maintained for pedestrian use. Adding a paved bath for bikes would reduce the quality of the path for pedestrians. 2) The path has low overhung trees and lots of twists which makes the path very enjoyable especially during the 8 hot months of the year (aesthetically and quality) for pedestrian use. This design also makes visibility low. Adding high speed bikes to this path would make it nearly unusable for pedestrians, or alternately adding a bike path would destroy a lot of the current vegetation (keep in mind this is a greenway!). Moving the path to the west and improving existing bike lanes on Pantano would be a much better solution than destroying one of the few pedestrian-focused trails in the city.

The Igo Way bicycle boulevard on this map shows the path connecting to Ricardo Small through Desert Palms Park Drive, which is a private road. The version on the Bicycle Boulevard Master Plan (page 125) shows the path following Hidden Hills Wash north to Hidden Glen Road then to Wrightstown. This is preferable alignment because Ricard Small is two-way traffic in narrow lanes on either side of a wash running north. There would be no space for a dedicated bike/pedestrian lane. In effect, it would be simply signage to note "Bicycle Boulevard" with no amenities to accommodate cyclists and pedestrians.

My observations concern that portion of the project’s proposed “Sarnoff Dr. Bike Blvd.” segment running parallel to Button Willow Rd. The Robb Ranch Development’s runoff catchment basin and surrounding fence (at the curved juncture of Smooth Sumac Ln. and Button Willow Rd.) completely block any proposed Bicycle Blvd pathway through or around them. Normal ingress/egress for the Robb Ranch Development is via the Button Willow Rd./Speedway Blvd. juncture. The only other ingress/egress point is available for emergency use only and involves unlocking both of the otherwise constantly locked gates at, on the one hand, the curved juncture of Smooth Sumac Ln. and Silverleaf Oak Pl. and on the other, the property of the Pavilions At Pantano apartment complex. The proposed Bicycle Blvd. merging with Button Willow Rd at the Speedway Blvd. juncture (combined with a HAWK light at the same point) would potentially create untenable congestion. Furthermore, I don’t believe the 6 foot wide Bike Blvd. pathway could fit into this constricted merge point. Note both the west end of the Speedway Blvd. bridge wall and a utility station at the merge point. The Robb Ranch HOA has always paid for the maintenance of the strip of land on which the proposed route of the Bicycle Blvd would lie. Would the HOA , or the City of Tucson, be responsible for this maintenance if the Bicycle Blvd. pathway is built there? I hope TDOT/City of Tucson will liaise with all appropriate Pima County Govt., AZ State Govt. and U.S. Federal Govt. agencies to assure that the proposed Bicycle Blvd. will comply wth all applicable guidelines/regulations. My concern is based on local news media reporting that the City of Tucson recently ignored required State and Federal permit processes relating to archaeological resources when it started public works projects on Tucson’s West Side. I am particularly interested in compliance with any potentially applicable U. S. Army Corps of Engineers’ requirements involving the Robb Wash banks and land adjacent to the banks, the small flood plain (designated by the Corps of Engineers) abutting the south side of the Speedway Blvd. bridge at its juncture with Button Willow Rd. and the proposed traversing of Robb Wash via what is presently just an alley currently ending opposite to the N. Kent Dr. cul-de-sac. I have actually seen Robb Wash filled to the bank tops with fast running water in the exact zone I have been discussing, a clear example of why the integrity and functionality of the wash must be maintained.

In Kenyon the median is hideous. There are no plants except one tree down the whole street. PLEASE include making our street more esthetically pleasing! Thank you

On Kenyon, between Camino Seco and Old Spanish Trail, the city has left our median barren. It needs foliage!

For safety reasons, the segment between Pantano Road and the Pantano Wash path seems to be the most urgent to complete. At present, coming from the Eastside neighborhood on 5th St and going west to the Pantano Wash path requires crossing at the light on 5th St and cycling down a very busy section of Pantano to get to Centre Park and the Pantano Wash path. Returning east to the neighborhood then requires either crossing Pantano without a light at Centre Park, or riding north on the sidewalk to get to the light at 5th/Pantano. Neither option is safe and both are quite dangerous considering the traffic and number of apartment entrances. Having access to the Pantano Wash path via the easement north of the 5th St stoplight would allow for safe access from this Eastside neighborhood.

We use this crossing point to get from the Loop across Pantano to get to Rolling Hills park from our house. Would be nice to have more bike boulevard infrastructure along Pantano here running to Golf Links and/or crossing and path here along 29th.

It would be really neat if there was a way to add a path to the back of the Miller Golf Links Library along this route. You can get to an alley that lets you out very close to the library, but due to fencing, you can't access the library without riding on Golf Links and/or Harrison. I would be much more comfortable riding to the library with my children if it was accessible along a safer route.

I ride a cargo bike with my children across Harrison right here. An actual crossing will be excellent and make it a safer ride! I am currently hesitant to let my older children ride along with me on this route to go to school primarily because of this crossing. Very excited for this addition.

Repair/update streets in areas adjacent to 5th St. Add speed tables to 5th St to slow traffic for cyclist safety as speeding is common between Pantano and Sarnoff.