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Operations & Maintenance Facility
The Sun Link Operations & Maintenance Facility is located at 5th Avenue and 8th Street, just west of the carbarn used by Old Pueblo Trolley. Construction of the eight million-dollar depot and adjacent storage yard began in May 2012 and concluded in September 2013 with an unveiling of both the facilites and the first United Streetcar vehicle to be delivered.

Cushing Street extension and the Luis G. Gutierrez Bridge
The 320 foot Luis G. Gutierrez Bridge will take streetcar, automobile, bicycle, and pedestrian traffic across the Santa Cruz on Cushing Street, which was extended from the I-10 frontage road to Avenida del Convento in 2012. The bridge opened to pedestrian and bicycle traffic in fall 2012.

Bowl games
The following is the current bowl selection order and the teams involved in each bowl:

Sentinel Peak is a 2,897 ft (883 m) peak in the Tucson Mountains southwest of downtown Tucson, Arizona. The valley's first inhabitants grew crops at the mountain's base, along the Santa Cruz River. The name "Tucson" is derived from the O'odham Cuk Ṣon, meaning "[at the] base of the black [hill]". In the 1910s University of Arizona students used local basalt rock to construct a 160-ft-tall block "A" on the mountain's east face, near its summit, giving the peak its other name, "A" Mountain. The peak is part of a 272-acre park, the largest natural resource park in the City of Tucson.

Early history
The fertile land at the base of Sentinel Peak was used for agriculture from circa 2000 A.D. until the 1930s. Bedrock mortars found on the sides of the peak are believed to have been used to grind corn and mesquite beans into flour. In the 1690s the O'odham people living in the area were visited by Father Eusebio Francisco Kino, who established the nearby Mission San Xavier del Bac. After Presidio San Augustin del Tucson was constructed in 1775, sentinels were stationed on the peak to watch for raiding Apaches.

Geology
Sentinel Peak is made up of layers of volcanic rock representing various types of volcanic activity, though the mountain itself is not a volcano. These layers once extended out west towards the Tucson Mountains and east into the Tucson Basin, where the city is now. Erosion and faulting are responsible for the mountain’s place in Tucson and its conical shape. It rests on a foundation of bedrock, and is dominated by 20 to 30 million year old volcanic rocks, made mostly of basaltic andesites, tuff, conglomerates, and scorias. Volcanic ash and breccia, along with ancient lava beds, or lahars, can be also be found on the mountain, further evidence of a once active volcanic field that formed the Tucson Mountain range.

The "A"
After Arizona football's 7–6 victory over Pomona in 1914, a civil engineering student on the team convinced one of his professors to make a class project of the survey and design for a huge block "A" on Sentinel Peak. Students carried the project to completion on March 4, 1916, when the 70 ft (21 m) wide, 160 ft (48 m) tall "A" was whitewashed on the east side of the peak. The basalt rock used in construction of the "A" was hauled from a quarry at the mountain's base which supplied stone for many foundations and walls throughout Tucson, including the wall surrounding the University of Arizona campus.

The "A" has traditionally been painted white. On March 23, 2003, four days after the start of the Iraq War, it was painted black in protest. Two weeks later, following much public debate, the Tucson City Council resolved to have the "A" painted red, white, and blue in honor of American troops. A decade later the council decided to restore it to its traditional white.

The "A" has often been painted green for St. Patrick's Day. Arizona State University has a more recently-created "A" Mountain (Tempe Butte) near the school's football stadium. During the week of the Arizona-ASU Territorial Cup game, rival fans and students have tried and at times succeeded in painting the "A" of the opposing school with their own school colors.

Schedule
In November Arizona will take part in the 2013 NIT Season Tip-Off tournament as one of four schools to host first and second round games, the others being Duke, Alabama, and Rutgers.

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Bus
Metropolitan Tucson's Sun Tran transit system operates an integrated network of bus and shuttle services. In 2009 regional transit services supplementing the Sun Tran bus system were re-branded to emphasize integration. All services were given names beginning with "Sun" and similar paint schemes, all using blue, gray, and white:
 * Sun Tran: 27 standard bus routes
 * Sun Express: 13 commuter express routes
 * Sun Shuttle: 8 suburban shuttle routes
 * Sun Van: on-demand paratransit shuttle service
 * Sun Rideshare: vanpool service and carpool coordination

Sun Tran was honored as an "Outstanding Public Transit System" by the American Public Transportation Association in 1988 and 2005.

The University of Arizona operates the Cat Tran shuttle service circulating through campus and connecting with off-campus parking. Cat Tran operates five lines during the day and one in the evening. Service is free apart from lines to off-campus parking lots to the north and west which require a pass.

The Downtown Loop is a free shuttle service operated by the City of Tucson to facilitate travel between downtown parking structures, businesses and government buildings. The shuttle runs weekdays between 6:30 am and 6:30 pm.

Streetcar
Tucson began construction on the Sun Link modern streetcar system in March 2012 with operation scheduled to begin in late 2013. The streetcar's 3.9-mile route will connect the University of Arizona, the Main Gate and 4th Avenue entertainment districts, downtown Tucson, the Tucson Convention Center and the Mission District under development west of downtown.

Old Pueblo Trolley operated weekend heritage streetcar service between Fourth Avenue and Main Gate prior to the start of Sun Link construction and may do so again.

Cycling
Cycling is popular in Tucson due to its warm, dry climate and relatively flat terrain. The City and County have built out significant cycling infrastructure including bike lanes, multi-use paths, signed bike routes on residential streets, and bike boulevards with restricted vehicle traffic and signalized crossings across major streets. The Tucson-Pima County Bicycle Advisory Committee (TPCBAC) was established to serve in an advisory capacity to local governments on issues relating to bicycle recreation, transportation, and safety. Tucson was given a gold rating for bicycle friendliness by the League of American Bicyclists in late April 2006.

Air
Tucson International Airport is Tucson's public airport and is located six miles (10 km) south of Tucson's central business district. TIA is the second largest commercial airport in Arizona, providing nonstop flights to 17 destinations throughout the United States. Due to the active presence of the Arizona Air National Guard at the site, the airport is much busier than most other airports that have the same level of civilian traffic.

Interstate
Interstates 10 and 19 are the only two Interstate highways in the metropolitan area. State highway 210 is a shorter freeway that links downtown with the Davis-Monthan Air Force Base. Tucson does not have a beltway system as other similarly-sized cities do.

Rail
Amtrak, the national passenger rail system, provides service to Tucson three times weekly in both directions, operating its Sunset Limited between Orlando, Florida and Los Angeles, California and Texas Eagle between Chicago and Los Angeles.

Public transportation, Amtrak, and intercity bus
The Phoenix and Tucson metropolitan areas are served by public bus transit systems. Yuma and Flagstaff also have public bus systems. Greyhound Lines serves Phoenix, Tucson, Flagstaff, Yuma, and several smaller communities statewide.

A light rail system, called Valley Metro Light Rail, has recently been completed in Phoenix; it connects Central Phoenix with the nearby cities of Mesa and Tempe. The system officially opened for service in December 2008.

Construction began in March 2012 on Sun Link a streetcar system which will run through downtown Tucson connecting the University of Arizona campus with the Mission District under development west of the Santa Cruz River. Operation is scheduled to start in late 2013.

Amtrak Southwest Chief route serves Northern AZ, stopping at Winslow, Flagstaff, Williams and Kingman. The Texas Eagle and Sunset Limited routes serve South-Central Arizona, stopping at Tucson, Maricopa, Yuma and Benson. Phoenix's Amtrak service was canceled in 1996, and now an Amtrak bus runs between Phoenix and the station in Maricopa.