Metro light rail offering Northwest Extension public meeting to review park-and-ride facility. PHOENIX — A public meeting is scheduled to discuss the design of the Dunlap park-and-ride in METRO’s Northwest Extension with neighboring stakeholders. The park-and-ride is planned for the southwest corner of 19th Avenue and Dunlap. METRO and City of Phoenix staff will […]
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Light Rail Pub Crawl raisng money – awareness for good causes
Another “Light Rail Pub Crawl” is coming to Phoenix Saturday, February 28th from 4-11pm with (at least) 16 participating restaurants and bars offering different specials. The guys at “Responsible Partying Made Simple” are putting it all together and urging people to purchase a t-shirt via RPMS for $10.00. The t-shirt purchase is basically your ticket to get […]
Light Rail Station – Dorsey and Apache
The Tempe light rail station is located just East of the main campus at ASU and is a popular station for people living near the school. The housing choices and number of small, locally owned businesses near by are many. The Dorsey and Apache station has two park and ride locations nearby with 190 spaces. […]
Light Rail Station – McClintock and Apache
The McClintock and Apache light rail station in Tempe is very popular with people that like the fact that it is a covered park and ride lot holding 300 cars. This light rail station has proven to be very popular with ASU students and recreational light rail riders alike. The park and ride lot is […]
Metro responds to Sheriff Joe’s “Con Rail” use
Yesterday, on Twitter, I said… Arpaio's "Con Rail" trips make for an interesting media frenzy… You know he hates the attention, right? The responses were immediate and were opinionated. Today, I discussed the idea with a friend who use to work for a Colorado County Sherriff's department and had picked up prisoners from the airport. Never once did they pay […]
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 […]
Phoenix light rail creating city within cities
I recently had an opportunity to attend a meeting with several well respected “Urban Planning” experts in Tempe. The meeting’s main focus was centered on the Brickyard area of Tempe. We discussed design, function, location, future potentials etc and were introduced to a really cool program called Spaceshaper which can help developers get great feedback on their […]
A Grand Opening, indeed
Wow, what a whirl-wind weekend around here. Friday morning, I was able to attend a “media preview” prior to the last public light rail ride before Saturday’s Grand Opening. At this preview, there were local politicians, celebrities and a bunch of media people all hanging out around the trains, talking about the system. This began […]
Happy Thanksgiving from Rail Life
Turns out, I am pretty thankful for this blog and for all of the friends we have made in a relatively short amount of time. I decided to take a couple of minutes to mention how thankful I am to the people that have encouraged us recently. The cool feedback from new friends and old, individuals and groups, has been great. So, thanks […]
Rail Life “Flickr Pic” of the week – Happy Turkey Day!
The first annual RailLife.com Turkey Drive was a great success this morning. With the help of some good friends, we were able to raise money so that we could purchase turkeys to deliver to the Phoenix Rescue Mission where they will be used to feed needy families this week for their holiday feast. I can’t tell you […]