Tucson Velo

Cyclists and pedestrians using Pima County’s Loop will be greeted by new signage aimed at preventing users from getting lost. Matt Zoll, the county’s bicycle and pedestrian manager wrote in an email that the county was working on the Rillito and then moving into other portions of the Loop. “We’ve got some wayfinding signs going [...]

The good news for cyclists is that the Pima County Bond Committee has included four bicycle projects in the upcoming bond election. The bad news, the committee also decided to postpone the election until November 2012. At their last meeting, the committee voted to add a fourth bicycle project to the pot — an additional [...]

The U.S. Department of Transportation announced the recipients of the $600 million in federal grant money designed to stimulate the economy, but Pima County’s Urban Loop project missed the cut. Nannette Slusser, a Pima County assistant administrator and the point person for the 55-mile car-free loop, said she was disappointed they weren’t awarded a piece [...]

Despite leaks surfacing about projects being funded by federal reinvestment grants, Pima County officials still haven’t been notified of whether they received any money to help fund the Urban Loop. According to Matt Zoll, the county’s bike and pedestrian program manager, the federal agency in charge of doling out the money has verified the project’s [...]

Figuring out just how many people are riding around the region might get a little easier is local bike planners have their way. Planners from the City of Tucson and Pima Association of Governments met with a representative from Eco Counter, a French company that sells automatic bike and pedestrian counters on Saturday. Eco Counter [...]

In an effort to speed up the completion of the Urban Loop, Pima County has applied for a $41 million grant. The grant is part of the second round of the federal government’s transportation-specific stimulus efforts. In the first round of funding, Tucson received money for the streetcar Nanette Slusser, Pima County’s assistant administrator, said [...]

The work of several Pima County bike advocates to create an urban loop path around the city is starting to pay off. The loop,  portions of which are under construction now, will connect shared-use paths like those that run along the Rillito and Santa Cruz rivers. Matt Zoll, the county’s bike and pedestrian program manager, [...]