Tag Archives: mass transit
Phoenix Light Rail Ridership Numbers for August 2010
Posted on 07. Sep, 2010 by Tony Arranaga.
METRO Light Rail served 150,000 more riders in August 2010 than the previous August, according to information on METRO’s website. The increase is 16% more than August ’09 and their Twitter feed also reveals that the system ‘reached 40,000+ daily totals last 2 weeks, likely due to students returning.’ The average Saturday ridership was 26,460 compared [...]
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METRO light rail ridership numbers
Posted on 12. Apr, 2010 by Tony Arranaga.
Managers of our light rail system here in Phoenix are doing a happy dance. According to the METRO light rail Facebook page, the system experienced its highest ridership month ever since opening back in December of 2008. March had 1,161,733 boardings and surprisingly the first week of March had more than 40,000 boardings each day. [...]
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A downtown bike crawl
Posted on 21. Mar, 2010 by Tony Arranaga.
Pub crawls along the light rail are a great way to get a group of friends together and experience what downtown Phoenix has to offer. In case you don’t know, a pub crawl is when a group travels from bar to bar using mass transit or some form of alternative transportation. Since the start of the [...]
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Alternative transportation growing pains
Posted on 23. Jan, 2010 by Tony Arranaga.
Let’s face it – Downtown Phoenix is not New York. Phoenix is not Los Angeles. Phoenix is not Portland. Phoenix has alot of growing to do when it comes incorporating alternative transportation into everyday life. Major cities like San Francisco and Chicago built hubs around neighborhoods, which makes socializing much easier. This is not the [...]
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Forget pants, I got hair to worry about
Posted on 10. Jan, 2009 by Tony Arranaga.
The adventure of riding the new light rail in Phoenix Apparently there was an internet-borne improv prank involving light passengers without pants today on the new mass transit system in Phoenix and around the world. I didn't go and get pictures, but you can read about it below. I have bigger things to worry about. [...]
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