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The Mesa-Tempe streetcar expansion will get nearly $16 million in federal funding, a financial lifeline for the project that was left without any funding after being cut from a regional ...
Valley Metro's data shows the streetcar's popularity is on the rise. It served about 46,000 riders each month on average in 2022, a figure that has increased to about 54,000 so far in 2023, a 17% ...
Tempe continues to move forward with the project in hopes that completion of the project, which began in 2007, will encourage developers to buy properties along the streetcar line, Taaffe said. In ...
Modern streetcars may be coming to Mill Avenue as early as 2016, according to recommendations made by Valley Metro. Valley Metro and the Federal Transit Administration performed a three-year study of ...
TEMPE, AZ (3TV/CBS 5) - Since it debuted in May of 2022, Valley Metro says more than 806,000 people have taken a ride on the Tempe streetcar. That is more than double the number of people Valley ...
PHOENIX — Over the next weeks and months, Valley drivers can expect to see streetcar vehicles make their way across Tempe as testing begins. On Monday, vehicles will be out on the alignment ...
Collon said Valley Metro hasn’t generated a cost estimate yet for the 4.4-mile Tempe-Mesa streetcar extension yet. The existing 3.1-mile Tempe streetcar cost $179 million in 2018.
The streetcar has been in operation in Tempe since May 2022. The possible extension would run 4.4 miles along Rio Salado Parkway from near Rural Road to Dobson Road, expanding into Mesa near Sloan ...
TEMPE, AZ (AZFamily)—Commuters on the Tempe Streetcar experienced delays after a crash Wednesday morning. The crash involving a motorcycle and the tram happened around 9 a.m. at Apache Boulevard ...
STV on Sept. 18 reported signing a contract with Arizona’s Valley Metro Regional Public Transportation Authority (Valley Metro), in partnership with the cities of Tempe and Mesa, to serve as the lead ...
TEMPE, AZ (3TV/CBS 5) - Since it debuted in May of 2022, Valley Metro says more than 806,000 people have taken a ride on the Tempe streetcar.
TEMPE, AZ (AZFamily)—Commuters on the Tempe Streetcar experienced delays after a crash Wednesday morning. The crash involving a motorcycle and the tram happened around 9 a.m. at Apache Boulevard ...