Glendale committee studies best way to bring light rail into downtown among resident fears

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By Peter Corbett | The Arizona Republic

A committee recommendation on light-rail routes into downtown Glendale is six weeks away and light-rail trains are a decade away, but there are already fears that the transit project could steamroll historic neighborhoods.

Lifelong Glendale resident Bobby Casares has been sounding the alarm that a light-rail route along Lamar Road, one block south of Glendale Avenue, would destroy a barrio that has been home to generations of Hispanic families. Other routes north of Glendale Avenue would go through neighborhoods with historic homes and the Glendale Landmark Middle School (photo), he said.

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