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Local Officials
Ride New Valley Metro
Express Bus Routes and Greet Passengers
Ed Sharpe
Glendale Daily Planet - 2008 / Photos and charts
thanks to - Valley Metro
The Big Picture!
Mayors and Council members from Glendale,
Goodyear, Mesa and Scottsdale took or met the bus on July 28 to
celebrate the first day of new express bus service in their
communities.
Route
511 - Chandler to
Scottsdale Airpark - Scottsdale Mayor Mary Manross
Route
535 - Mesa to downtown
Phoenix Mesa - Councilmembers Scott Somers & Dina Higgins
Route 562 - Goodyear to
downtown Phoenix - Goodyear Councilmember Frank Cavalier &
Vice Mayor Rob Antoniak
Route
575 - Glendale to downtown
Phoenix - Glendale Mayor Elaine Scruggs
Lets get Local!
Glendale Mayor
Elaine Scruggs (in the turquoise jacket) along with other city
transportation staff and Valley metro
officials joined the festivities met passengers waiting to
depart on route 575 - Glendale to downtown
Phoenix.
(GDP) (Glendale Arizona) -
Monday, July 28 2008, Glendale Mayor Elaine Scruggs along with other
city transportation staff and Valley metro officials joined
the festivities and met passengers waiting to depart on
route 575 - Glendale to downtown Phoenix. This
park-and-ride is at Church of Joy at 75th Avenue and
Beardsley.
This route
is funded by Proposition 400, the extension of the half-cent sales
approved by voters in November 2004, which allowed funding of the
Regional Transportation Plan developed by the Transportation Policy
Committee of the Maricopa Association of Governments. Mayor Scruggs
led the development of this plan while she was Chair at MAG regional
council.
Media was on hand to interview
officials and passengers about the new bus service and hear how it
will benefit their communities.
Glendale Mayor Elaine Scruggs
commented "Everyone I met was so
excited to have this new service. Most of the people had been
using Route 573, and reported that it is very, very crowded.
Route 575 is a welcome addition. I met two people who
were going to be riding the bus to work for the very first time.
They felt the convenience and the financial savings were both too
good to pass up."
This will help ease the pain
at the gas pump while improving air quality. We ask our readers to
consider this... You live in Arrowhead Ranch but work at the
capitol... Let them drive and you can kick back and read the
morning paper! A much more relaxing and satisfying commute
than driving your own vehicle!
Jamsheed Mehta -
Director of Transportation,, Cathy
Colbath - Transit Administrator
and
Matt Dudley - Transit
Manager, all from the city of Glendale, were
on hand for the kickoff!
The
ridership for Route 575 on the first day is noted below and is VERY
good.
There are three morning and three afternoon trips during the peak
commuter hours.
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Direction
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Time
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Boardings
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Misc
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575
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Inbound
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5:55am
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39
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575
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Inbound
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6:35am
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34
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575
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Inbound
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6:50am
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34
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575
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Outbound
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4:15pm
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41
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575
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Outbound
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4:45pm
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33
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575
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Outbound
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5:15pm
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22
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It’s
free for the first week of service...
How easy can it get?! |
Express 575—Northwest
Valley Express AM/Inbound
From Arrowhead Towne Center to Downtown Phoenix/State Capitol Area.
Exit East on Inner Loop; Exit East on East Mall Entrance; North on 75th
Avenue; West on Joy Boulevard through the Community Church of Joy
parking lot. Exit Community Church of Joy; South on 75th Avenue to the
bus stop (just South of Rose Garden); East on Loop 101/Aqua Fria
Freeway; South on I-17/Black Canyon Freeway; Exit East on Jefferson
Street; North on Central Avenue to Van Buren Street.
Express 575—Northwest
Valley Express PM/Outbound
From Downtown Phoenix/State Capitol Area to 75th Avenue/Arrowhead
Towne Center
West on Van Buren Street; South on 1st Avenue; West on Washington
Street/Adams Street; North on I-17/Black Canyon Freeway; West on Loop
101/Aqua Fria Freeway; North on 75th Avenue; West on Joy Boulevard into
Church of Joy parking lot, exit Community Church of Joy parking lot,
South on 75th Avenue to bus stop; West into Arrowhead Towne Center at
the East Mall Entrance; Northwest on Inner Loop; South on Sears entrance
to the bus stop. (bus stop is the same as the local stop)
Monday-Friday AM Inbound
Schedule
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Arrowhead
Towne Center
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75th Ave at
Beardsley Park-and-Ride
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17th Ave at
Jefferson
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Central
Station
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555a
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605a
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640a
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650a
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635a
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645a
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725a
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735a
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650a
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700a
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740a
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750a
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Monday-Friday PM Outbound
Schedule
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Central
Station
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State Capitol
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75th Ave at
Beardsley Park-and-Ride
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Arrowhead
Towne Center
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415p
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425p
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506p
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516p
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445p
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455p
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540p
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550p
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515p
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525p
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610p
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620p
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Route |
Location |
Interview |
Departure Time of Bus |
Final Stop |
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511
Chandler to Scottsdale Airpark |
90th Street & Shea Blvd. |
Scottsdale Mayor Mary Manross |
7:29 a.m. |
Scottsdale Airpark |
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535
Mesa to downtown Phoenix |
Power & McDowell roads |
Mesa Councilmembers Scott Somers & Dina
Higgins |
7:05 a.m. |
Downtown Phoenix |
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562
Goodyear to downtown Phoenix |
Cornerstone Blvd, west of Dysart Road |
Goodyear Councilmember Frank Cavalier &
Vice Mayor Rob Antoniak |
6:20 a.m. |
Downtown Phoenix |
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575
Glendale to downtown Phoenix |
Church of Joy park-and-ride at 75th Avenue
and Beardsley |
Glendale Mayor Elaine Scruggs |
Arrival at park-and-ride: 7:00 a.m. |
Will meet and greet passengers |
NEW ROUTES
Route 511 – Chandler-Scottsdale Airpark (via
Loop 101)*
Two-way commuter service, with 2 morning and 2
afternoon trips going both northbound and southbound, traveling between
Arizona Avenue at Chicago Street and Scottsdale Airpark. The route will
transition to the Chandler regional park-and-ride in December.
Hours of operation: peak commute hours only
Route 535 – Red Mountain-Downtown Phoenix
Express (via Loop 202)*
Two commuter trips traveling from Power and
McDowell roads to downtown Phoenix with return two trips in the afternoon.
One commuter trip will depart from Gilbert and McKellips roads to downtown
Phoenix with one return trip in the afternoon.
Hours of operation: peak commute hours only
Route 562 – Goodyear-Downtown Phoenix Express
(via I-10)*
Three commuter trips traveling from Goodyear to
downtown Phoenix with three return trips in the afternoon.
Hours of operation: peak commute hours only
Route 575 – Northwest Valley-Downtown Express
(via I-17)*
Three commuter trips traveling from Arrowhead
Towne Center to downtown Phoenix via the Loop 101 and I-17 with three
return trips in the afternoon.
Hours of operation: peak commute hours only
ROUTE EXPANSIONS
Route 61* will
have all trips extended into Mesa’s Superstition Springs Mall and trips
will be added on weekdays and Saturdays. Sunday service will be offered on
the entire route.
Route 96* will
be extended north to serve Mesa Riverview Center and south to Ocotillo
Road on weekdays and Saturdays, with additional trips. Sunday service
introduced.
Route 571 will
offer three weekday roundtrips between Surprise and downtown Phoenix.
Route 660* will
offer four weekday roundtrips and two Saturday roundtrips between
Wickenburg, Surprise and Glendale
SCHEDULE CHANGES
Green Line, 3, 17, 30, 41, 45, 61, 72, 81, 96,
156, DASH
ROUTE CHANGES
• 65
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Extend south on Kyrene to Chandler Aquatic Center
• 81
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Travels south of ASU Research Park and south on McClintock to Chandler
Blvd. and Chandler Fashion Mall
• 156
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Dobson Road turn eliminated
• DASH
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look for new routes and schedules in August 2008
ATTENTION MESA PASSENGERS
Saturday service on Routes 30,
45,
77,
104,
120,
128 and
136 in
Mesa will operate hourly. Weekday service on Route 136 will operate at
hourly between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m.
LIGHT RAIL
Join us in celebrating this historic milestone
for the Valley by riding for free on the two grand opening days, December
27 and 28. Beginning December 29, you'll be able to ride all day with an
all day bus and light rail pass costing $2.50 and a single ride pass only
$1.25.
Valley Metro/RPTA is an organization of 14 local
governments that provides or funds transit services to citizens in the
greater Phoenix metropolitan and surrounding areas. For more information
about Valley Metro public transit services, call Transit Information at
(602) 253-5000; for callers with TTY (602) 261-8208; or visit the Valley
Metro website at www.ValleyMetro.org.
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GLENDALE OPENS
FIRST “GREEN” AND
LARGEST
PARK AND RIDE FACILITY IN THE VALLEY
11 a.m., Tuesday, March 25 Northeast
corner of 99th Avenue and Glendale
Avenue
City of Glendale Mayor Elaine
Scruggs, Councilmember Joyce Clark, along with Glendale
Officials today showcased a new Glendale Park and Ride. This
facility is a “green” design and the first
environmentally friendly structure of its kind.
Buses, shuttles, shovels and
the community will carve out the future of the Valley’s
largest Park and Ride. Guests learned about the various
green engineering designs that will make this facility
environmentally friendly. For example, experts
demonstrated by using a water dump truck a street surface
that will act as a sponge (say goodbye to puddles and
urban heat). This project is one of the first large
projects in the western United States utilizing this
science.
City of Glendale Mayor Elaine Scruggs
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