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Southern Arizona ARPA Membership Meeting

[ 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 [...]

March 2008 Newsletter

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

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

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 [...]

Phoenix to update DASH for light rail

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 [...]

Metro keeps light-rail schedule simple

In the Arizona Republic, 24 March 2008:
To get people to ride the upcoming light-rail system, Metro is attempting to keep the schedule easy, frequent and on time.
Metro has announced the light-rail trains will run every 10 minutes from sunrise to sunset on weekdays, every 20 minutes other times during the week, every 15 [...]