Last week’s Transit Means Business Conference in Phoenix was well attended by transit geeks, politicians and METRO staff. If you have an interest in transit, I would strongly recommend that you connect with Friends of Transit and get on their mailing list. Speaking at the conference were: Yvonne Hunter: Board Chair, Friends of Transit, addressed […]
Rail Life Pic Of The Week – ASU Students Are Back
It was a busy week for a lot of people. ASU students were welcomed back to college life and thousands took advantage of the METRO system getting them around town. It was fun to see the spike in blog traffic this week while people looked for information on light rail maps, schedules, park and ride […]
Walgreens To Sell Valley METRO Passes
Valley Metro Transit Passes Now Available at Walgreens Stores 170 locations added to retail network Phoenix, AZ (Aug. 17, 2011) Now, there are 170 more reasons to buy your transit pass in advance of riding the bus and light rail. Walgreens, with 170 stores offering Valley Metro passes, has joined the transit agency network of […]
Welcome Back ASU Students – Stay Safe, Have Fun
Thousands of ASU students were welcomed back to school with open arms this weekend. AZCentral reported that “the university on Saturday began a three-day effort to move close to 13,000 students into housing on its four campuses in the Valley.” Many of these students living in downtown Phoenix and Tempe are also a welcome sight […]
Metro light rail ridership numbers – July 2011
The July 2011 METRO light rail ridership numbers came in at 940,364. It’s a pretty big number but with the huge ridership days of the 4th of July and the MLB All Star Game, most expected the number to be big. Heck, METRO claims that 200,000 rode light rail during the 5 days of the […]
Platinum Pass Now Available To Small Business
The METRO platinum pass program can be used by a business as a way to subsidize all or part of their employees transportation costs. For light rail, the maximum monthly cost to the employer would be $55.00. I notice that they say “your company or organization must have a minimum of five current active transit […]
METRO Light Rail – Some Interesting Numbers
While searching for some ridership reports recently, I came across METRO’s 2012 Operating And Capital Budget. Yep, it’s 56 pages of goodness that would be awesome for reading material when you have been drinking Red Bull all night. Some pretty interesting nuggets can be found and are listed below. Please note, I just skimmed and […]
METRO Numbers From MLB All Star Game
We hear a lot about the success of the Phoenix light rail system and about the ridership numbers being higher than expected. Ever since since opening day in 2008, people have looked to METRO as a very convenient way to get to many places along the 20 mile line. Sporting events along the line are […]
Rail Life Pic Of The Week – Central Station
This past week, I got to hang out with some friends in downtown Phoenix. On my way home, I shot this pic at the newly designed Central Station. If you have not seen the multi-million dollar facelift, take a look the next time you are downtown by exiting at Central and Van Buren or at […]
Score Another For Phoenix
I’m a big fan of a company called Walk Score. I’ve mentioned them several times is the past, but basically a Walk Score is a way for people to score a property based on it’s walk-ability. Being somewhat of a transit geek, I find this tool very interesting and have shared it with a bunch […]