I'm about to tell you something you already know:  Driving in Tucson is a headache.

The downtown I-10 widening project seems to be on schedule but has been a pain.  The construction project downtown on Toole and the 4th Avenue underpass has also been a pain.

I wish every day there was a freeway or expressway that runs east/west through Tucson.  It never gets approved by voters because nobody seems to want it in their neighborhood.  Yet, we seem happy or at least tolerant of the ever increasing brown cloud that hangs over Tucson whenever the weather is warm thanks to the pollution caused by so much city driving.  But the powers that be keep trying to make driving easier for all of us the best they can.

A new pain is going to begin in May.  Oracle is going to be widened in Oro Valley from Calle Concordia (that's about a mile north of Magee) to Tangerine.  It's going to be expanded from two lanes each direction to three.

I remember in 2002 when Oracle was repaved and I lived in Oro Valley at the time.  I'd go home late sometimes from work and there would be traffic jams at 11 p.m.  It was a headache.

If you have to drive that route get ready.  It's about to become a whole lot tougher.