Celebrating Houghton completion: Valencia to Mary Ann Cleveland Way

The City of Tucson’s Regional Transportation Authority plan project to widen Houghton Road from Valencia to Mary Ann Cleveland Way is complete. The project widened the roadway to six lanes with a median, added left- and right-turn lanes at the Rita Road intersection, new bus pullouts and more. The new asphalt surface is what the … Read more

Houghton Road project update – September 2021

The 13-mile Houghton Road widening project is divided into several segments between East Tanque Verde Road and Interstate 10. The project underway now will widen South Houghton Road to six lanes from East Mary Ann Cleveland Way to East Valencia Road, with multi-use improvements throughout the two-mile project. The City of Tucson awarded Borderland Construction … Read more

Houghton Road project update – April 2021

The Houghton Road improvement project, one of 35 roadway corridor projects funded in the Regional Transportation Authority’s 2006 voter-approved plan, spans 13 miles between East Tanque Verde Road and Interstate 10. As such, it was scheduled into several phases of construction. The goal of the RTA project is to create a desert parkway by widening … Read more

Happenings on Houghton

Houghton Road is one of the longest corridor improvement projects in the voter-approved Regional Transportation Authority plan. One phase of this 13-mile long project is the three-mile section from 22nd Street to Irvington Road. The City of Tucson is managing the voter-approved RTA project. The Tucson Department of Transportation and Mobility and the RTA are … Read more