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  • Downtown Links Project Nears Completion

    The Downtown Links Improvement Project is entering its final stages, with significant progress visible throughout the site. Construction crews have …
  • Downtown Links Update August 2025

    Currently, work is taking place on the underpass at the Union Pacific Railroad (UPRR), which is the most complex segment …

Category: Media

See Downtown Links from the Air

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

Posted on December 1, 2020December 1, 2020Categories Media, Videos

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.

Posted on September 20, 2017September 23, 2020Categories Media

New interactive sculpture will spray passers-by (AZ Daily Star)

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.

Posted on January 2, 2016Categories Media

Riding the rails through downtown Tucson (AZ Daily Star)

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. 

Posted on October 30, 2015Categories Media

Decades-old Aviation Parkway plan moving forward (AZ Daily Star)

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.

Posted on July 6, 2015Categories Media

Tucson’s first deck park design soon to be approved (Tucson News Now)

Tucson’s first deck park, or plaza as it is now being called, is entering its final design phase.It will sit above the new downtown links roadway being built as a bypass around downtown. Click to read more.

Posted on January 28, 2015March 9, 2018Categories Media

Posts added along bike lane for safety (Tucson News Now)

TUCSON, AZ (Tucson News Now) –

Safety posts began to be added Friday on St. Mary’s Road from I-10 to Main Avenue Friday as part of an attempt to protect bicyclists on the road. Click here to read more.

Posted on April 29, 2014Categories Media
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