An Overview of How Regional Rail, Light Rail, and
Amtrak can work together
Regional Rail
Light Rail
News and Other Tidbits
- History
Of Transit Elections in the Valley of the Sun
- Metro
Phoenix Public Transportation History
- "Can rail prevail the first time around?"
by Paul M. Weyrich, Railway Age June 2000. How to
win a transit election.
- New "Gas Electric Hybrid" automobiles' fuel
efficency inferior to virtually empty commuter trains by Adam
Otsuka
- [A new freeway creates more traffic woes than it
solves] "because it makes everybody drive more. If freeways
solved transportation problems, Los Angeles would be heaven."
-- Paul Basha, Scottsdale's traffic engineering director, in The
Arizona Republic, 24 December 1999.
- October 1999: The Arizona Silver Haired Legislature
forwards ASHL 9915, the
Arizona Public Transportation Authority, to the full State Legislature.
ARPA member Robert Hart made these
comments.
- 19 April 1998: Diamondbacks
Express train demonstrates possibilities of Regional Rail
concept
- 23 July 1997: According to Jim Howl, Republican
candidate for governor, in his letter in the Mesa Tribune,
23 July 1997, "...it's possible to know right now how light-rail
service will work in getting cars off the road and clearing our air.
How? A commuter rail pilot run... The mass-transit folks should plan,
right now, for a two-month trial run next summer."
- 10 July 1997: Testimony before the
MOVE-IT committee
Route Information
Studies & Proposals
Background Information
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Equipment
Arizona Rail would use modern, clean-burning
diesel-electric locomotives, with bilevel passenger coaches.
Other regional rail systems use equipment like this:
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Arizona Rail
The Proposed Arizona Rail
System (revised 2006-08-05)
Arizona Rail System, Scale Map (1991)
High Speed Rail Proposal (1998)
Where is Maricopa?
Railroad Map of Arizona
1895 Arizona map
Library of Congress
Railroad Maps
