By Lauren Schieler | Phoenix Business Journal
More than 20 years ago, employees of the Maricopa Association of Governments made projections for ridership numbers for downtown Phoenix’s newest project, the light rail system.
Eric Anderson, who’s now executive director for the association, known as MAG, was among those employees who didn’t expect Phoenix would become the fifth largest city in the country by 2017.
“We were projecting maybe 25,000 riders a day when that system matured, and we’re almost double that now,” Anderson said.
