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Gilbert Town Council could once again vote on a commuter rail ordinance at Tuesday’s meeting, for the second time in as many weeks. This time at the request of Mayor Bridgette Peterson.
When Amtrak in July 2021 first unveiled its plan to revive a Tucson-Phoenix commuter rail line, it gave these cost estimates. That was before inflation hit the country, sparking huge increases in ...
Three possible routes for a proposed rail line between Tucson and Phoenix were unveiled by the Arizona Department of Transportation Tuesday, giving road-weary commuters between the state's two ...
Other cities with successful commuter rail systems include Chicago and Dallas, according to the study. The 90-mile Chicago route has 12,800 passengers a day and the Dallas system has 5,900 daily ...
Phoenix aims to close public-transportation gaps. A New York Times analysis published in 2019 found that the Phoenix metro area's carbon-dioxide emissions increased by 291% from 1990 to 2017 — a ...
And major commuter rail services in Chicago, Minneapolis, Maryland and Washington state all warned then that some of their operations would be suspended in the event of a rail strike.