This week, I saw this video titled “Greg Stanton & Scott Smith: 2012 Best of the Capitol – Best Elected Officials”. I think it’s a great fit for the Rail Life pic / video of the week because both of these guys have been major supporters of “life along the line.” Obviously, their jobs have […]
ASU Predicts Less Cookie Cutters More Light Rail Projects
You all know the neighborhoods, the homes were built by the tens of thousands here in the Valley. Tile roof, stucco exterior with elevation A, B, and C differentiated by moving a window or maybe a slightly different pitch to the roof line. Either way, when you drive down the street, they all basically look […]
Public Transit Apple Falling From The Tree?
So, Apple announced details of iOS 6 at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference this week, and it has been pointed out that public transit directions are NOT included. Of course, there are some people that don’t think this is too cool… Our friends at WalkScore definitely agree with us that transit information matters. On the […]
METRO To Van Halen Concert For FREE
A little bit of Van Halen is pretty hard to resist. Sure, it has been about 20 years since they were one of the best shows on the planet, but their music is still good enough to bring some of us back to the good ol’ days… This Saturday, Diamond Dave and the Van Halen […]
Metro light rail ridership numbers – May 2012
The May 2012 METRO light rail ridership numbers are out and there were 1,118,598 boardings which is 148,116 less than April’s total of 1,266,714. On the plus side, May of 2011 had 1,018,684 boardings which means there was nearly a 10% increase from the year before. May 2012 ridership numbers look like this: Total Boardings […]
Rail Life Pic Of The Week – Historic Hayden Flour Mill
I love what they are doing at the historic Hayden Flour Mill in Tempe. Historic preservation, adaptive reuse and making a cool community gathering spot where fences once kept the public away. I walked the area a couple of weeks ago and read the information just outside of the walls of the mill while looking […]
Ground Broken
It was a party. Complete with big top tent, a bunch of food and drink from local businesses and a band playing in the streets. Hundreds of people gathered today to celebrate the future light rail extension that is coming to Mesa. In addition to the party atmosphere, people rubbed elbows with the movers and […]
Another Historic Day For METRO Light Rail
Tomorrow, METRO will break ground on the Mesa light rail extension. This is another historic day for METRO and is a big step forward for Mesa, as well. The Mesa light rail extension will be the first expansion of the current 20 mile light rail line that travels in Phoenix, Tempe and in Mesa. Currently, […]
Walk About – A Rising Trend
It doesn’t take a genius to realize that living near our light rail line gives people easy access to a LOT of cool stuff. In Arizona, the term walkable community seemed like an oxymoron for a very long time. To some, it probably still does. We have cars, why would we need to walk anywhere? […]
On Two Wheels
I recently wrote a post titled “Bikes And Transit – Peanut Butter and Jelly?” The obvious implication is that they go rather well together. In fact, the more I ride MY bike for recreation, exercise, to run to the store, etc., the more I like it. I can recall MANY years ago when I was […]