Comments on: New Phoenix Light Rail System Exceeding Ridership Projections

By: Dan Cody

Dan Cody — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 05:10:21 +0000

Your account clearly explains the high ridership numbers before baseball season began.

By: Steaming Rail Of Crap

Steaming Rail Of Crap — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 04:53:49 +0000

I live in Phoenix and the thing is a joke. It doesn’t extend to areas where riders might actually be able to use it. Every time I drive by a station, the only thing there are some roaches and dust, except on Baseball night, and then it’s used as a novelty to shuttle people out to where they parked their cars so they can drive home.

By: Dan Cody

Dan Cody — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 15:44:38 +0000

Cool Sean, looking forward to hearing about it!

By: Sean

Sean — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 15:18:04 +0000

Heading to Phoenix next month…..might get a chance to experience their mass transit and get back to you with my “opinions” :)

By: Dan Cody

Dan Cody — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:51:07 +0000

Thanks for the feedback Rick, good to hear.

By: Rick Peterson

Rick Peterson — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 21:32:47 +0000

I have ridden the Metro from Mesa to downtown Phoenix and it is a very smooth ride. You can park your car in Mesa and take the Metro to downtown Phoenix to go to a baseball game and not have to worry about parking costs or driving downtown. I am not a fan of raising taxes, but if they are raised at all it might as well be for something useful. And it doesn`t all have to go toward light rail but also busses.

By: The River Otter

The River Otter — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 14:49:28 +0000

This argument is filling up my inbox.
Is there an unbiased site I can use to look up actual data about mass transit costs and ridership? I would like to be more informed. At that Milwaukee County Parks, Energy, and Environment Committee meeting that I attended, the WIS DOT showed the massive freeway widening that will occur soon (Zoo Interchange, Dan Cody) and two of the supervisors (Larson and Lipscomb, if you want to write to them) were questioning why light rail was not being considered- why the project was not being designed to be able to easily add it later.

By: Dan H.

Dan H. — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 14:32:05 +0000

When did I say mass transit is bad? Here in Vegas, I think we have a very good transit system. The fares are cheap, it is safe, for the most part, the busses run on time and there a lot of routes. Just because one does not believe in the trains does not mean I find all mass transit bad. It is a needed service while the trains are not a eeded service- it is a luxury item that benefits few people and it is expensive to build and run.

By: Dan Cody

Dan Cody — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 02:42:14 +0000

There’s no right answer when the person asking that question doesn’t believe mass transit can be successful.

And people still ride the bus when it’s cold.

By: Dan H.

Dan H. — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 20:33:53 +0000

And Dan, I agree with you that we only have opinions. my only question would be this: How would describe a failure in a transit system?