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New Phoenix Light Rail Makes Muni Look Bad

Updated 5:00 PM PST, Fri, Jun 26, 2009

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Phoenix just opened its new light rail line back in December, and ridership's been nearly twice what they were expecting.

Looks like they really did it right: Streetsblog's video shows nicer shelters than anything we have, ground-floor boarding, a working smartcard system (in contrast to Muni's ongoing floundering with Translink), easy payment (in contrast to Muni's tourist-flummoxing signs and machines), and bike racks on the trains! Yes! BIKE RACKS INSIDE TRAINS.

We now wish our daily commute to work could detour through Arizona.

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First Published: Jun 26, 2009 12:04 PM PST

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