This morning the CEO of Metro, Rick Simonetta, spoke to a packed house at a Phoenix breakfast meeting. The enclosed video will give you a great understanding of the current and future plans for our light rail system. Some of the highlights from his talk (for me) were: We are just 142 days from the opening […]
Update – “Mayor’s Breakfast” – Location change
Last week, we let you know about the upcoming "Mayor's business coffee" where METRO's CEO, Rick Simonetta will be speaking to us about light rail. A special thanks goes out to Hillary Foose at Metro for confirming with me this am that the location has changed to Mi Amigo's at the Arizona Center. As requested, […]
More Light Rail rules to be finalized soon
The AZ Republic had a brief story this morning talking about the fact that the city of Tempe will vote on new light rail rules Aug. 14, and Phoenix and Mesa are expected to review them soon after. Jyme Sue McLaren, Tempe's Deputy Public Works manager (fyi, she is REALLY nice ) was quoted as saying "We worked for a year and a half. […]
Phoenix Light Rail – Flickr Group
Come join us! For residents of Arizona, or anywhere else, if you would like to show your pictures of light rail cars or of the fun places, businesses, housing, restaurants, hotel’s, schools, entertainment etc along the 20 mile light rail route, we have just created a "Phoenix Light Rail" group on Flickr. Please join in […]
Old and New – Transportation systems evolve
Last week, I was in San Francisco for two different conferences. I had a great time, met some really cool people and enjoyed the convenience of utilizing San Francisco's public transportation system. I even specifically picked a hotel that was between the two conferences and was adjacent to a BART station so that I could […]
Valley Metro CEO to speak about light rail…
I hope you can join us for the next Mayor’s "business coffee" to hear Metro’s CEO Rick Simonetta, speak about light rail. I have had several opportunities to hear Rick speak and find him to be friendly, informative and obviously very knowledgeable about the vision of rail in our city. I believe there will be […]
More Phoenix Metro Light Rail news
I found this interesting article today talking about how cities are embracing public transportation more than ever. “The American Public Transportation Association reports that Americans took 2.6 billion trips on public transportation in the first three months of 2008 — nearly 85 million more trips than last year for the same time period. In total, […]
Metro Light Rail – A Few New Rules
For many Arizona residents, light rail is going to be a new experience. Metro has begun a pretty significant safety campaign and is looking for Phoenix, Tempe and Mesa to help spread the word. Other than safety and common sense, there will be some new rules and expectations that people will be asked to follow. […]
Busy week for Metro – video recap..
Wow.. This past week was action packed for Metro and for people wanting more information about the new light rail cars. Yesterday, the trains made their first trip up Central Avenue. We were lucky to have Joy get some video of this historic trip. I think the video does a great job in giving you a […]
Phoenix Light Rail testing – videos available
If you want to see the light rail cars in action from this mornings tests along Central Avenue, go check out The News From Downtown Phoenix. I can't wait to see the cars running full time in December! Thanks Eddie, for sharing the info.. Looking forward to the pics as well.. Oh yeah, have you […]