A good friend of Rail Life, Brian Shaler, let us know that there's a Ted Talk Viewing Party tonight at 6:30pm at the Cowden Family Resource Building (on the ASU campus and Very convenient location near light rail and a great selection of bars & restaurants for afterwards!). Before we go any further, it's important that […]
Rail Life Strikes a Home Run with AZHardBall
Anyone who's lived in Arizona for any length of time, knows that we are a sports minded, team-cheering-state! For me, that's an okay kind of thing, but for the other million or so people who live in Arizona, it's an incredible benefit to living here. So, with that in mind, we're thrilled to introduce […]
Join Rail Life – FREE Climb to Conquer Cancer registration!
RailLife.com is donating two entries for the upcoming Climb to Conquer Cancer event at South Mountain in Phoenix. ($40.00 registration fees) All you have to do to enter is leave a comment on the "Join Rail Life – Help Fight Cancer" post and you are entered to win. Calie and I will draw names this Tuesday, January […]
Rail Life “Flickr Pic” of the week – Suns Tweet Up a huge success
The first ever Phoenix Suns Tweet Up was this past week and it was a huge success. The Suns have a brilliant marketing team that has embraced social networking better than any other NBA team. In fact, this "tweet up" was the first in NBA history. Many people in the Suns organization use Twitter in […]
Phoenix Light Rail service to shut down tomorrow
Phoenix light rail cars will not be running north of McDowell tomorrow morning due to the P.F. Changs Rock 'n' Roll Marathon. I wanted to remind people and let you know that the following stations will be shut down until approximately 10:00 a.m. or until the race has cleared. · 19th Avenue/Camelback Road · 7th Avenue/Camelback Road […]
Light Rail and Bus service affected by P.F. Chang’s Rock n Roll Marathon this Sunday!!
PHOENIX—Many bus routes in Phoenix, Scottsdale and Tempe and light rail service in Phoenix will be affected when the P.F. Chang’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Arizona Marathon rolls into town on Sunday, Jan. 18. The marathon begins at 15th Avenue and Washington Street in downtown Phoenix. The State Capitol area will be shut down at […]
Join Rail Life – Help Fight Cancer
Once again, I have sponsored a team for the annual "Climb to Conquer Cancer" that is held at South Mountain. I hope that you can join me and participate in this very fun event that will be held on Saturday, February 28th. The "climb" is actually a walk up the mountain and is a great […]
Rail Life “Flickr Pic” of the week – Just havin’ some fun!
It’s been an eventful 2 weeks since the grand opening of our light rail system. You might even say that I have been more than a little busy trying to keep up. When I first heard of Saturday’s “No Pants Day” I was pretty sure that Rail Life should probably just watch and report from a […]
FREE, Family Fun Weather Fest Today!
Are you looking for a FREE, family friendly, interactive event to do today? Then, you are sure to want to make your way to the nearest light rail station and head towards the Phoenix Convention Center (Third St & Washington, Phoenix light rail station). Today from 12 till 4pm, Weather Fest is taking place. […]
New 1st for Phoenix Light Rail – No Pants Day
It has been a pretty exciting around here in the short time since the shiny new 1.4 billion dollar light rail system rolled into town on December 27th. It was the first grand opening of it's kind in the valley; we have had the first Light Rail New Year's Eve, the first Light Rail crash, and […]