Not long ago it seemed as if the long threatened destruction of the Ronstadt Transit Center had been consigned to the dustbin of history. But this is not the case. The City Council voted on Thursday to approve a 168 page redevelopment agreement with Peach Properties, a local real estate firm that plans to raise …
Read moreRonstadt Transit Center Redevelopment Back in Play (Commentary)
In a demographic survey of downtown Tucson’s future population — as it is presented in the winning proposal for the building complex to replace the Ronstadt Transit Center — the Occupied Tucson Citizen has ascertained that this population will be overwhelmingly white and middle- or upper-class. Of the 101 total of clip art people shown …
Read moreClass Cleansing? Downtown’s Future Demographic in Pictures
In a direct action held last Thursday at the Ronstadt Transit Center, members of the Tucson Bus Riders Union boarded a bus without paying their fares as a part of a campaign to pressure the city to take action to end the bus strike. Events transpired as follows (a fuller description of the events and …
Read moreBus Riders Union Engages in Direct Action (Photo Essay + Blog Post)
[Ed. Note — The following is an open letter to the “Road Runner” — Patrick McNamara, the Arizona Daily Star’s transportation columnist — by Tucson Bus Riders Union member and member of the Occupied Tucson Citizen Working Group, Greg Evans. It is in response to an article by McNamara, that ran in Monday’s paper, about …
Read moreRonstadt Redevelopment: An Open Letter to the Road Runner
The City of Tucson has been in the process of a redevelopment of the Ronstadt Transit Center – the downtown hub for the city bus system — since the fall of 2013. They conducted a series of stakeholder meetings in early 2014, put out a Request for Qualifications and have now received preliminary proposals from …