As ASU welcomes students back from their winter break, I hear rumblings of nervousness over a whole bunch of new commuters and first time light rail riders. From what I understand, Metro and ASU have both prepared information for students to quickly educate them on light rail safety and awareness. I had dinner tonight with a friend […]
Join Rail Life at Historic ASU football game tonight!
What is significant and historic about tonight's ASU football game? It is the last home game played in Tempe prior to the opening of Light Rail! Isn't that a great excuse to celebrate? We think so! Next season, people will be able to get to the ASU games via the light rail stop at 5th St / College Avenue. How […]
More Metro Light Rail info for ASU students
About a week or two ago, I was downtown at one of the ASU buildings and snapped this picture of an ASU intercampus shuttle bus thinking it would come in handy. I was glad to see our friend Edward who writes about "Life at the ASU Downtown Phoenix Campus" post some really good information for students […]
Free ASU Football tickets from RailLife.com!
By now, many of you know that I LOVE ASU sports and that I always look forward to ASU football games. Turns out, I have 2 extra tickets (section 19 row 25) for the game on the 25th vs. Oregon and I want to give them away! I'll have a drawing on Tuesday the 21st at 2:00PM to […]
ASU Hot Money Topic: The Best Investment For College Students?
This was passed on through a friend of mine and sounds like pretty sound advice: If you had purchased $1,000 of Delta Air Lines stock one year ago, you would have $49 left. With Fannie Mae, you would have $2.50 left of the original $1,000. With AIG, you would have less than $15 left. […]
ASU Hot Money Topic: Rollin’ on 24’s?
Do you roll in a tricked-out-Hummer ridin' on twenty-fours? Ok, ok, so maybe you are cool. Or maybe your parents set up a trust fund for you before you were born. Or maybe you got beat up too much in high school. No matter what the reason that you are ridin' high and wide — everyone […]
ASU Hot Money Topic: I Caught My Roommate…
Have you ever walked in on your roommate doing something that they didn’t want you to know they did? I have. Ok, ok, so we all have things that we do that we don’t want anyone to know that we do. You know, those quirky little habits that we think no one knows about and […]
ASU Hot Money Topic: Build Good Credit
If you are on currently on the full-ride-mom-and-dad scholarship, stop reading this post right here. What I am about to say will most likely be a waste of your time because your parents have probably solved this problem for you without you even knowing. Just keep riding the gravy-train-with-biscuit-wheels right up until it pulls into […]
Communities near light rail have much to offer
I just got back from Blogworld Expo in Las Vegas where I met a lot of really amazing people and learned a ton of cool stuff about blogging and social media. To me, the most interesting part was learning more about community building and on line relationships etc. Don't get me wrong, the "technical" aspects were cool but sessions on Twitter […]
Rail Life “Flickr Pic” of the week – 100 days until Light Rail in Phoenix
This past week, we got within 100 days of Light Rail opening in Phoenix. I took this pic at the press conference where we were updated by local leaders and by Rick Simonetta, Metro's CEO. The testing has been going well and this shot was taken at the Central/Van Buren stop near the downtown ASU campus in […]