Yearly Archives: 2008

Light-rail construction: Is the end finally near?

April 29, 2008 – 7:08 am

Road and speed restrictions remain along Central Avenue… but Metro light rail officials say that will soon end.A ceremony Tuesday marked the last of the concrete poured and rail installed along the 20-mile line…
The [line] is expected to be complete by the end of the year, with trains running Dec. 27.
Rick Simonetta, CEO of Metro […]

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Southern Arizona ARPA Membership Meeting

April 27, 2008 – 8:35 am

[ May 10, 2008; 12:30 pm to 2:00 pm. ] ARPA Members and Guests are invited to attend the Southern Arizona ARPA Membership Meeting in the Ventana Room of the Marriott University Park Hotel, 880 East 2nd Street in Tucson on Saturday, 10 May 2008.

The ARPA Board of Directors will meet at 10AM, which you are welcome to attend.

The program will begin at 12:30. Shellie […]

By wlindley | Posted in Events |

March 2008 Newsletter

April 18, 2008 – 11:49 am

ARPA’s March 2008 newsletter is now available for download.

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Group wants Light Rail on Thomas, not in I-10

April 16, 2008 – 7:35 am

Arizona Republic, 15 April 2008
The Phoenix City Council is scheduled to vote Wednesday to put rapid transit along I-10 west between I-17 and the Desert Sky Mall… Sean Horan, a Phoenix community activist said Thomas Road in Maryvale was ruled out as an alternative too early… “We are basically saying that rather than create a […]

By wlindley | Posted in Light Rail, News |

Phoenix to update DASH for light rail

March 30, 2008 – 5:47 am

The Phoenix Public Transit Department is making changes to DASH, the free downtown circulator, and public input is requested. A public hearing will be conducted on all of the proposed routes on April 3, at the Citizens’ Transit Commission Meeting at 302 N. 1st Ave., Phoenix.
The public is invited to three public open houses […]

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