Studio Crosson with students Estanislao Soto, Garrett Dunn, and Aaron Beringson. The Palo Verde/Camino Miramonte path is a proposed north-south bike boulevard that bisects City of Tucson. This bicycle boulevard is funded under Proposition 407. The University of Arizona, under Professor Courtney Crosson, worked with the Tucson Department of Transportation and Mobility (DTM) during the Spring 2020 semester to envision a design strategy along the boulevard that helps to mitigate flood concerns and establish a “complete streets” culture that encourages the use of bikes and pedestrian use along its entire length. Split into groups, the students broke the boulevard into 6 unique sites that were developed over the course of an entire academic semester. Each site worked with DTM and Pima County Flood Control as well as the local neighborhood associations to develop a boulevard that met these goals and helped to establish a sense of place for the neighborhoods that use them.
