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02-21-2009, 12:17 PM
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Best way to drive from OV to Broadway at night
I want to preface this post by saying I do *not* want it to be a big debate about crime in Tucson or hear the love/hate relationships with the city. I have just moved here (and like it) but will make my own opinions about my new home. What I want to know is: I am still trying to find my way around and need to go from OV to Broadway/5th area at night. Mapquest is telling me drive straight down Oracle and left on Broadway - is that the best most populated way to get there? I'll be traveling alone, after 8pm, and I'm female (and driving back the same way around 11pm).
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02-21-2009, 01:49 PM
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I would say take 1st/Euclid down to Broadway, then take a right. This is not because of crime, but if you are unfamiliar with driving downtown, then Oracle is not a good idea especially at night because the roads become a real mess in that area.
Save your sanity....lol.
If you drive from OV to that area a lot, then you don't really need to worry...traveling down Oracle, Stone, or 1st/Euclid would never result in someone following you or trying to jump you.
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02-21-2009, 03:06 PM
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thanks much, just what I need.
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02-21-2009, 09:48 PM
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just to check, did you mean Broadway and 5th....Avenue??
also, the previous poster mentioned 1st/Euclid....he/she means 1st Avenue, not Street.....this is a "secret" way to travel N and S to avoid often-busy Oracle, though 1st often gets slow S of Wetmore....1st become Euclid S of Grant and slows as it goes by the U on its way to Broadway....drive carefully through here......and catch 1st from Ina or Orange Grove, not Magee
do not follow mapquest and "take Oracle to Broadway"....as said, it isn't that easy.....
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02-22-2009, 11:07 AM
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Sorry, JackAZ . . . I'm gonna throw another option that would be my first choice.
South on Oracle to River Road. East (turn left) on River to Stone (only a couple of blocks) then South (right turn) on Stone to University or 5th Avenue (just before the Train Tunnel / Underpass). Left over to 5th Street and Broadway would be a few blocks South.
Good Luck
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