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   Another Investor on November 24, 2019 at 7:16 am

   I sort of feel sorry for the banks that are financing this…

   For the maybe 3-5 percent of the population that at least think they want to live this way, well, here you go. Meanwhile Arizona is pouring billions into freeway expansion. The 303 will have TEN lanes south of I-10. SR 30 from the 303 east to downtown and beyond is moving into the serious planning stage. The Loop 202 will be finished over a year early and will provide a bypass around downtown Phoenix. Hundreds of thousands of new homes will be built in the West Valley over the next 20 years. Bill Gates bought a huge amount of land out by where I-11 will connect with I-10. I think we can see who will win this contest…

   As a side note, the proposed light rail is proving very unpopular with the cities in the West Valley. Too many commercial uses are undermined first by the disruption of construction and then by the loss of parking when the rail line is completed. The completion of the most recent segments through downtown Mesa has increased crime near the line. Not very popular with businesses that now have to take measures to keep the homeless and other undesirable elements that have migrated east from interfering with their businesses. Several West Valley cities have voted or will vote to pull out of the light rail project.

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   Another Investor on November 24, 2019 at 9:46 am

   https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/glendale/2017/10/23/glendale-city-council-kills-plans-downtown-light-rail/781004001/

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   Jim the Realtor on November 24, 2019 at 10:38 am

   Glendale resident Tom Schmitt, chairman of Glendale’s Citizens Transportation Oversight Committee, which spent hours coming over possible routes last year, was livid.

   “So you have the vote of the people — vote of the citizens of Glendale to want light rail, you had a committee appointed by the city and by the council to study and look at this and make a recommendation and they recommended to go forward,” Schmitt said. “And then you have the CTOC recommending to go forward. But they sat there in a workshop, unilaterally (decided) to kill it — it just doesn’t make any sense to me.”

   The council majority cited concerns such as price, that few people actually take advantage of light rail and that it would not provide the sought-after economic boost.

   “I think it’s time to make council’s direction known and stop keeping people in limbo,” said Councilwoman Joyce Clark, who was elected last year, shifting the majority position on light rail. “I do not support moving forward with light rail at this time. I think it’s the wrong time and the wrong place.”