Challenge

Liberty Avenue is a north-south residential street in Tucson, AZ, that provides direct access to two schools, Liberty Elementary School and Apollo Middle School, both located on Liberty Avenue. Multi-use paths are located on both ends of Liberty Avenue: Julian Wash Greenway on the north end and Los Reales on the south end. The challenge is to provide multimodal (bicycle and pedestrian) accommodations on an existing 5-mile segment of Liberty Avenue between 44th Street and Los Reales Road.

Solution

Kittelson worked to identify and design traffic elements that provide infrastructure for bicyclists and pedestrians on Liberty Avenue, slow vehicular traffic on the road, and assist bicyclist and pedestrians in crossing busier roadways traversing the Avenue.