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Planners of a Tucson-area discouraged with “dog bones”bicycle route system want to — curbs built diagonally intoeliminate automobile through- about three intersections per • traffic on East 3rd Street and mile, leaving enough roomIBike way plan would ban t3rd car traffic iNorth Mountain Avenue and to establish 19 miles of bike route priority areas within a year.The new bike routes and expansion of the current routes along 3rd and Mountain were contained in a preliminary plan presented last night at the first of five public meetings that will be held over the next two weeks.a county planner.The priority areas include University of Arizona, Pima College, El Con shopping center, Randolph Park and the downtown area. Routes to these areas would include the 3rd Street and Mountain routes..J. D. Belford, of the cityonly for bicycles to pass through and forcing cars to turn right. Low speed limits and no-parking zones alsowould be used.Neither the cost nor the number of miles in the plan has been determined, Belford said. The county bond electionmerits Transportation Planning - Program, and included results of public meetings held in December.Adults now ride bicycles mainly for exercise, followed by recreation and transportation, the study found. Thefactor keeping . bicyclists offriding in the Tucson area, according to the study. b;p|The plan recommends using ^secondary and local streets, rather than main thoroughfares, and encouraging build- 01ing of bikeways in unde* tlveloped and redeveloping Sareas. GThe planners told about 15 ^persons meeting at the El Rio Neighborhood Center, 1390 W. Speedway Blvd., they hoped to ehave a final plan ready by the aend of March.9 ,• ; - ]Crash survivor ^dies of burnsMARYSVILLE, Calif. (UPI) s— Capt. Paul J. Baldy, 29, the nonly survivor of a bomber gcrash that killed seven airmen fiFriday, died today of burns that covered 90 per cent of his ybody. hsaid the officer had died at gBrooke Army Medical Center anear San Antonio. splanning department, said the streets, and there isneighborhood traffic would he “much greater” potential forAimed ’(atv ..commuter and recreational Froutes, ':'the sys- tern would be phased' over a 5 ■to 10 year period with some parts of it beginning within a '• year, said Leslie A, Prentice,last week set aside $1 million for bicycle paths and the city ..would fund the routes to the 'priority areas, he said.The study was coordinated by : Gloria J. Sandvik of the Pima Association of Govern-hazard of competing with A spokesman at Beale AFB, P.automobiles was the main Calif., where the B52 crashed, I
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Tucson Daily Citizen
Tucson, Arizona, US
Tue, Feb 12, 1974
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