by bryan | May 8, 2011 | Entertainment, News & Information
This is a novel idea: How to mix light rail with music? The answer is: The Train Tracks, live music on light rail. The Train Tracks (.org) has been organized to showcase local Phoenix Metro musicians who offer the very best that the Valley of the Sun has to offer. Each week a local band is picked to show a video on the website. Then, the winner each quarter will play to a live audience at the Phoenix Art Museum. A winner from the quarterly events will be selected to play at the McDowell Music Festival. http://www.thetraintracks.org/ http://www.azcentral.com/thingstodo/music/The_Train_Tracks_900270684342 Very cool. Check it out...
by bryan | May 8, 2011 | Education, Event Calendar, News & Information
LightRailConnect is co-sponsoring the Smart Business Seminar Series with LRA Real Estate and the Four Points Sheraton at Tempe. Check for dates and times below. Smart Business Seminar series: April 28, 2011 How to use Google Adwords for your Business (This class will be repeated) Location: Four Points by Sheraton 1333 Rural Rd, Tempe 85281 6 p.m. FREE May 12, 2011 Does Your Business Have a Facebook Account? Location: Four Points by Sheraton 1333 Rural Rd, Tempe 85281 6 p.m. FREE RSVP to classes@LightRailConnect.com May 19, 2011 Top 5 Reasons you should use Excel in your Business Location: Four Points by Sheraton 1333 Rural Rd, Tempe 85281 6 p.m. FREE RSVP to classes@LightRailConnect.com...
by bryan | May 8, 2011 | Jobs, light rail corridor, LightRailConnect.com Magazine, News & Information
You can Find over 200 Jobs near light rail in Phoenix-Tempe-Mesa at LightRailConnect. How you do you find jobs near light rail, and enjoy the convenience of working near the light rail line? Easy! LightRailConnect has an agreement with the job posting aggregator Indeed for Jobs near light rail in the Phoenix, Tempe and Mesa metro area.. Where do you find these Jobs near light rail? Simply go to the LightRailConnect Jobs page and click on the Indeed logo. That’s it! Happy hunting. (And, let us know if you like...
by bryan | Apr 29, 2011 | light rail corridor, light rail expansion, News & Information, Valley Metro
First phase of airport’s train to begin operations in early 2013 by Emily Gersema – Apr. 29, 2011 The Arizona Republic Dozens of workers have erected 10,000 tons of steel and 11,000 yards of concrete over recent months to make the pedestrian walkway that bridges Washington Street and the platform for the 44th Street PHX Sky Train station. Commuters who use Washington Street and the Metro light rail have watched the structure develop into a towering bridge near the Grand Canal and 44th Street. The platform where passengers will wait for the unmanned train to take them to Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport is about 40 feet from the ground. Photos of PHX Sky Train construction he ceiling and roof for the platform have not been built yet, but workers recently installed 17 elliptical steel arches, which will support the roof. Each arch weighs about 35,000 pounds. The platform’s emergence is a milestone for the $1.5 billion project, which crews began building more than a year ago. Media members were invited to take a look at the platform Thursday before workers closed it off for further construction. The interior will be finished, and workers will add moving walkways, escalators and elevators. Construction of the rail is expected to wrap up sometime early next year, said Dave Benjamin, the project superintendent for builder Hensel Phelps. Steve Grubbs, a Phoenix Aviation Department special-projects administrator, told the Aviation Advisory Board last week that workers at a Bombardier plant in Pittsburgh are piecing together 18 rail cars for thetrains, which will be opened to passengers in early 2013 after about a year of testing. Sometime next year...
by bryan | Apr 24, 2011 | light rail expansion, News & Information
by Gary Nelson – Apr. 21, 2011 Arizona Business Gazette A Mesa business leader said last week that residents and merchants need to begin paying heed to an emerging plan that will govern redevelopment in a large swath of the central city. Otto Shill, president of the public-policy committee for the Mesa Chamber of Commerce, said language in the plan will eventually gel into rules affecting everyone in the area. He made his comments to a chamber-sponsored community forum on April 13, the first of several that the business coalition will hold around town to raise awareness of key Mesa policy issues. The plan in question is called the Central Main Street Neighborhood Area Plan. A citizens committee has been working on it for 16 months in hopes of a public rollout by summer and City Council adoption in the fall. Several public meetings will be held before the plan is final. It will govern land use and building design in a nearly 4-square-mile area straddling Main Street from Extension Road to east of Gilbert Road. A sibling plan was adopted for the western part of Mesa’s light-rail corridor several years ago. Jeff McVay, a city planner, told the small audience Wednesday that the plan aims to transform the corridor into a pedestrian-friendly urban center with at least 4,000 more dwelling units than at present. Many would be in mixed-use buildings within arm’s length of the rail tracks. Redevelopment probably would be most intense through downtown, with infill projects more likely east of Mesa Drive, McVay said. “If the city does achieve even half the development potential here, we’re going to have a real...
by bryan | Apr 24, 2011 | light rail expansion, News & Information, Valley Metro
Project is in planning stage, does not yet have price tag by Sadie Jo Smokey – Apr. 21, 2011 The Arizona Republic This fall, north-central Phoenix may get a bike-lane connection between the Arizona Canal and the Uptown Metro light-rail station. But it will require cutting out two lanes for vehicles on Central Avenue between Bethany Home and Camelback roads. “My primary goal is to provide a link between riders who use the canal and the Metro station,” city traffic engineer Kerry Wilcoxon said. “Right now, they don’t have access between Seventh Avenue and Seventh Street.” The project, which is in the planning stage and therefore does not have a price tag, would add one bike lane northbound and one southbound on the southern stretch of the route, providing cyclists a route between the start of the Murphy Bridle Path (at Bethany Home Road) and Camelback Road. Read...
