By: Eric Jay Toll | Phoenix Business Journal
A grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation is making Phoenix MayorGreg Stanton‘s commitment to expand light rail across the city a little closer to reality.
The $1.6 million grant will provide the city of Phoenix resources to evaluate the planning, environmental and conceptual engineering for a five-mile extension of Metro light rail down Central Avenue from Jefferson Street to Baseline Road.
“Getting light rail to South Mountain is one of my personal priorities,” Stanton said. “I want to bring the same flexible transit options to the area as others in the city experience with Metro.”
The Phoenix City Council authorized the South Central Transit Corridor less than a year ago. The action last December made the route the first light rail extension moving beyond the original Proposition 400 proposal.
