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Airport Accessibility A High Priority In Scottsdale

Posted by: Nate Berg

9 April 2007 - 6:00am

To help keep its airport a major revenue generator, the city of Scottsdale, Arizona, is considering a variety of plans to improve accessibility. Most of the plans on the table revolve around building roads, but bus rapid transit is also proposed.

"Scottsdale wants to maintain the Airpark's status as an annual generator of nearly $23 million in sales and property taxes."

"'We have emerging facilities in outlying areas that don't have some of the same issues we do, with either traffic congestion or build-out,' O'Connor said, referring to the eventual end of major construction in landlocked Scottsdale."

"'Facilities that connect up to our neighboring communities, whether they be transit or freeways, facilities that help people get their commutes shortened . . . those are critical to continued success.'"

"Scottsdale also is pushing to accelerate plans for bus rapid transit to the Airpark. A route now planned to run between Chandler and Shea boulevards is scheduled for funding in 2014, but the city wants to see the Airpark on the route, too."

Full Story: Transportation options being explored to maintain Airpark's economic edge
Source: The Arizona Republic, April 7, 2007
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