from the Arizona Republic, 29 Jun 2007
Commuter rail in Arizona is beginning to gain traction, backers of building a so-called “heavy rail” line said this week.
More than 100 city, state, county and rail advocates met Thursday in Mesa to begin hashing out the pros and cons of high-speed trains that would link cities as far flung from each other as Phoenix to Tucson and counties as vast as Pinal to Maricopa.
“We must have rail that connects Phoenix to Tucson,” said Mesa Vice Mayor Claudia Walters in kicking off the meeting of Commuter Rail Stakeholders Group…
ARPA members Jay Smyth and Sam Morse are quoted.
