West Valley mayors push regional commuter rail January 14th, 2006
Cecilia Chan, The Arizona Republic, Jan. 13, 2006
Commuter rail needs to be regional and needs to be integrated with other modes of public transportation, regional officials say… West Valley leaders listed suggestions they wanted the Maricopa Association of Governments to consider when it updates its 2003 study on passenger rail options and implementation strategies.
The MAG Management Committee was to vote Wednesday to form a commuter-rail stakeholders group to help prepare a draft scope of work for the $5 million study, which would be coordinated with a parallel study proposed by the Arizona Department of Transportation.
Phoenix Councilman Claude… Mattox also said [that] Phoenix City Manager Frank Fairbanks is on record in support of a commuter rail study.
