2020
See Downtown Links from the Air
Arizona Daily Star photojournalist Mamta Popat recently created a drone video showing the full scope of the Downtown Links project from above.
Watch the full video now on the Arizona Daily Star website.
The print version of the Daily Star also featured two photographs by Popat showing details of the work currently underway:
Photos by Mamta Popat / Arizona Daily Star
2017
Road Runner: Decades in the making, Downtown Links not far from construction (tucson.com)
It’s been a decades-long process, but construction of Downtown Links is now — relatively speaking — on the horizon. Clck here to read more.
The wheel is 16-feet in diameter and made of recycled tires donated from shops around Tucson. It will be installed along Downtown Links, north of downtown. Click here to read more.
Inside the cab on a Union Pacific locomotive passing through downtown Tucson during a crossing safety enforcement event with Tucson Police.
Click here to watch the video.
The city has inched closer to breaking ground on a roadway project decades in the works.
Underground and aboveground utility work on Downtown Links — the western extension of Barraza-Aviation Parkway to connect the road to Interstate 10 — could begin as soon as August. Click here to read more.