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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]
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 ...
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.
The National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015 categorized it as a primary commercial service airport since it has over 10,000 passenger boardings per year. [4] Federal Aviation Administration records say the airport had 1,779,679 enplanements in 2011, a decrease from 1,844,228 in 2010. [5]
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 ...
Tucson, AZ – Amtrak; Tucson, AZ – Station history at Great American Stations (Amtrak) Tucson Amtrak station information; Southern Arizona Transportation Museum – at the Depot. Arizona Rail Passenger Association: Tucson Depot history; USA Rail Guide: "Tucson Amtrak Station & El Paso and Southwestern Railroad Depot" – by Train Web
The Sunset Limited is a long-distance passenger train run by Amtrak, operating on a 1,995-mile (3,211 km) route between New Orleans and Los Angeles.Major stops include Houston, San Antonio and El Paso in Texas, as well as Tucson, Arizona.
Daily rail service had existed until the 1960s between Phoenix, Glendale, and Wickenburg as well as Tempe and Mesa.. Contemporary discussion of commuter rail in Phoenix began with the "Hattie B." flood relief train of 1980, [3] [4] and was first widely promoted in 1991 by the Arizona Rail Passenger Association with the release of its Arizona Rail report.