An open house is scheduled this week ahead of the next phase of the East Grant Road-widening project, the Tucson Department of Transportation and Mobility announced.
A “Pre-Construction Open House” will be held from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on Saturday, April 13 on a vacant lot at 4010 E. Grant Road, the transportation department said.
s of the project will be worked on concurrently. It will encompass Grant Road from North North Palo Verde Boulevard to North Venice Place, just west of North Swan Road, the department said in a news release.
The Grant Road-widening project was included in the first iteration of the Regional Transportation Authority. That’s the half-cent sales tax county voters passed in 2006 to fund $2 billion worth of transportation projects.
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RTA revenues came in much lower than expected, however, leaving an estimated $500 million shortfall to complete projects like widening of Grant Road that was promised to voters 18 years ago.
The project will widen Grant Road to six lanes with a 17-foot-wide “raised median,” the department says.
Five-foot bike lanes with two-foot buffers along with sidewalks will be added to either side of the road. The work also will include new landscaping and drainage features along Grant.
There will be new “indirect left turns” at North Alvernon Way, the department says. It will also include “transit accommodations” such as bus pullouts, “shelters” and benches, the department says on its project site.
“TOUCAN signals,” like the signal that cyclists and pedestrians use to cross North Euclid Avenue while traveling on East Fifth Street, will be added at the Palo Verde Avenue and Dodge Boulevard intersections on Grant Road.
Construction on the phases is expected to last at least three years and cost at least $63 million, according to the department.