By Maria Polletta | The Republic
Preliminary construction work on the next leg of Mesa’s light-rail line could begin as soon as August, according to city transportation officials.
Engineers are expected to have a detailed design for the $153 million, 1.9-mile addition — which would extend tracks east along Main Street from Mesa Drive to Gilbert Road — nearly finished by July. The extension would add two stations and a park-and-ride to the line.
“From this point forward, activity in that corridor is really going to start ramping up,” said Jodi Sorrell, Mesa’s transit-services director.
Workers have started identifying utility lines for possible relocation, she said, and later this summer, “they’ll be moving street lights, demolishing medians, relocating manholes, doing sewer-line work and everything that sets the stage for rail construction.”
