Mark your calendar now for the 8th Annual Melrose on 7th Ave Street Fair. The cool folks over at Seventh Avenue Merchants Association were kind enough to call Rail Life and give us the heads up about this year’s family friendly event. On March 7th from 11am to 5pm come out and enjoy live […]
Phoenix Suns Tweet Up Info and a PLEA for HELP!!
The Phoenix Suns are having a Tweet Up on January 16th and TODAY is the LAST day for you to buy your tickets! I promise that you don't want miss this very cool event. We all LOVE the Phoenix Suns and this is a great way to come to a game and to meet some really […]
Grab some grub with RailLife at Phoenix Convention Center today!
Sorry for the last minute mention but…. Some of the Rail Life crew will be checking out 6 new restaurants at the Phoenix Convention Center today who are participating in a free samples / tastings of their food. It's open to the public from 11am to 1pm at the North Convention Center building (the new one)…. The […]
Metro light rail – Growing pains in early days
The first week of service for our new light rail line went pretty well. Of course not everything was perfect, but I do think it has been a success so far. This past Thursday was the very first day of paid service for the new METRO Light Rail line in Phoenix, and it too had […]
Light Rail Travel Times – A work in progress
A 20 mile light rail trip should eventually take about an hour. A while back, we posted some information from Metro concerning travel times between a few destinations along the route. This morning, I was reading some "Twitter" updates and saw that my good friend Calie was going to take a "quick trip" via light […]
How to buy a light rail pass
We get a ton of questions about how to purchase light rail tickets. Hopefully, we can help out a little more. An all-day pass currently costs $2.50 and is good on both local bus and light rail. All-day passes are good for unlimited use for that particular day and expire at 2:59 a.m. the following day. A "one trip" ride is […]
Riding Light Rail New Year’s Eve? Share your story!
We had a GREAT time on Opening Day of the light rail line by sharing a bunch of cool pictures and "tweet up's" with everyone. In fact, our group now has over 400 light rail related pictures! If you are heading out tonight and you are taking light rail to get there, feel free to […]
Metro’s Helpful Hints for “Free Ride” Week
We just got this release from Metro and wanted to pass it along. I think the free ride week has been busier than many people expected. We knew the weekend would be crazy but this week has proven to be busier than I expected. This is probably good news for the system as people appear to be […]
Metro Light Rail wants your opinion re: Potential Fare Increase
Here is a newly updated news release from Metro concerning a potential fare increase. A few weeks ago, we gave you the information and some opinion on the public meetings but it looks like there will now be a public webinar as well. Please take a look and get involved. Valley Metro Requests Public Input on Potential […]
Arizona to Receive Transit Funds
We got this news release this morning and thought some of you might be interested. PHOENIX (Dec. 29, 2008) –Revenues from the Local Transportation Assistance Fund II (LTAFII), which are generated from the Arizona state lottery, have been released by Governor Janet Napolitano from the 2009 fiscal year state budget. Realizing how transit is […]