October 20, 2000 – 6:51 am
October 20, 2000
Downtown Phoenix Partnership, Inc.
502 E. Monroe, Suite C-1
Phoenix, AZ 85004
To Whom It May Concern:
The Arizona Rail Passenger Association supports the expansion of the Downtown District as described in your Fall 2000 newsletter. The revised boundaries would include all of what is popularly known as “Downtown Phoenix,” for the first time including Union Station […]
by Art Gatts
May, 2000
Reprinted with his permission and edited by William Lindley, October 2006
“I took a trip on a train,” says an old song, and some 200, including Sun Lakes’ Gareth Thorne, did just that on May 5 when the Arizona Rail Passenger Association, the Arizona Department of Transportation, and Amtrak coordinated their efforts for […]
TALGO at Wickenburg Station
TALGO at Glendale Station
Phoenix Union Station
TALGO Train at Phoenix Union Station:
Displays at Union Station
TALGO at Bank One Ballpark [Chase Field], Phoenix
TALGO Crossing Tempe Town Lake
ADOT Director Mary Peters at Coolidge
TALGO at Tucson Station
Arizona Daily Star 29 June 1999.
QUOTE: “The City Council yesterday approved a 12-year, $26 million plan to refurbish the Union Pacific [originally Southern Pacific] train depot. But rather than choose between the depot’s original 1907 version or the expanded 1941 configuration, the council unanimously agreed to build something that looks like the original but is […]
by Pat Kossan, The Arizona Republic, 12 June 1999.
QUOTE: “Maricopa County is tempering its plans for a downtown Phoenix jail complex, bowing to the city’s demands to save Jackson Street’s old buildings and its potential as an arts and cultural center. The county’s new proposal, which has yet to be approved by the Board of […]
