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Re: PHOTOS: Jon's Juice Junket, part 6 - Phoenix |
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Posted by Jon Bell on Sun May 23 12:48:50 2010, in response to PHOTOS: Jon's Juice Junket, part 1 - New Orleans, posted by Jon Bell on Sun May 16 00:21:04 2010. Yesterday I took a daytrip from Tucson to Phoenix. The eastern terminal of the Valley Metro light rail in Mesa is just east of the AZ-101 expressway and easy to get to. A one-way trip end to end takes 65 minutes for 20 miles. Most of the line is in the median of arterial streets, like on Central Ave. near the McDowell station: The eastern end of the line at 19th Ave. & Montebello. A single car is on the tail track, with a two-car train in service at the station platform:  Coming out of the station at Camelback / 19th, turning from Camelback Road onto 19th Ave. The supporting wires from the diagonally opposite corner where I'm standing are really long!  The only significant section of private right of way runs past the Arizona State University campus in Tempe. Right next to the station at Veterans Way / College Avenue (next to the ASU football stadium) is Hayden Butte, which I climbed to the top for a nice view of the bridge over the Salt River.   At first I thought the colored lights in the pavement between the tracks were reflectors like I've seen on highways, but then I saw they're actually signals for the switches:  |
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