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Sun Link, also known as the Tucson Streetcar, is a single-line streetcar system in Tucson, Arizona, United States, that began service in July 2014. [5] [6] [9] The system's 3.9-mile (6.3 km) route connects the Arizona Health Sciences Center (including University Medical Center), the University of Arizona campus, the Main Gate and 4th Avenue shopping and entertainment districts, downtown Tucson ...
Entering Arizona on I-10 from New Mexico. Main interstate routes include I-17, and I-19 traveling south–north, I-8, I-10, and I-40 traveling west–east, and a short stretch of I-15 traveling southwest–northeast through the northwestern corner of the state.
Sun Tran is the public transit system serving the city of Tucson, Arizona.In 2023, the system had 17,361,800 rides, or about 59,500 per weekday as of the third quarter of 2024. 100% of the fleet utilizes clean-burning fuels, such as compressed natural gas (CNG), biodiesel, and hybrid technologies. [6]
The last train to run between Phoenix and Tucson was the long-distance Sunset Limited. In June 1996 the train was rerouted 30 mi (48 km) south of Phoenix to Maricopa, leaving the Arizona state capital as the largest city in the United States to lack direct inter-city rail service. Tucson remains served by the Sunset Limited just three times per ...
As of 2023, passenger rail service between Phoenix and Tucson is in the planning phase. Future extensions of the route could reach to Los Angeles. By 2035, Amtrak has proposed to have rail service connecting 16 stations in Arizona. [9] In June 2023, Amtrak submitted a grant application requesting $716 million for various long distance proposals.
Every year in March, the Southern Arizona Transportation Museum, located in downtown Tucson, holds the Silver Spike Festival. The festival commemorates the arrival of the train to Tucson, in March, 1880. The 2014 event, had such notable guests as Mayor Jonathan Rothschild and Arizona Daily Star newspaper columnist David Leighton.
Southern Pacific Transportation Company: Southern Pacific Transportation Company: SP SP 1969 1998 Union Pacific Railroad: Southwestern Railroad of Arizona: SP: 1900 1901 El Paso and Southwestern Railroad: Tucson, Cornelia and Gila Bend Railroad: TC&G, TCG 1915 1985 N/A Tucson, Globe and Northern Railroad: 1887 N/A Never opened Tucson and ...
Tucson International Airport hosts Morris Air National Guard Base, known as Tucson Air National Guard Base prior to November 2018, a 92-acre (37 ha) complex on the northwest corner of the airport that is home to the 162nd Wing (162 WG), an Air Education and Training Command (AETC)-gained unit of the Arizona Air National Guard.