Project Update

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Project Update
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Average Ridership
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System Refinement

• Updated the timing of traffic signals
• Added additional signage at intersections for
  motoring public
• Updated messages on trains (Platform
  announcements)
• Adjusted the volume and number of announcements
  on the trains
• Fare Vending Machines

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Items To Be Improved

• Next train coming announcements
• Additional station signage
• Update route map in vehicles
• Additional TVMs and stand alone validators need
  to be installed
• End to end run time
• Predictive Priority

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Light Rail for Events

• 600 people in three-car train in 30 seconds
• 10-15 of venue attendees will ride
• Trains will run until event is over. Even after
  normal operation hours
• Past events include AMA Supercross, NBA All-Star
  Event and New Years Eve Block
  party

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Sky Harbor Connection

• 900 people per day are taking
  METRO to airport
• Free shuttle stops at all terminals
• Runs 7 days a week / mirrors train schedule
• Phoenix Sky Train coming in 2013

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NBA Experience
NBA advertised for the All Star game in February
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Northwest Extension
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Future High Capacity/Light Rail57-Miles
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Northwest Extension
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Impacted Property

• Residential Full 58 Single Family 1 Vacant
  Land
• Residential Partial 9 Single Family 18
  Multi-Family
• Commercial Full 15 (14 Improved 1 Vacant)
• Commercial Partial 64 (Including 6 churches 4
  schools)
• Included in the partial multi-family are
• 2 Condominium Cut Re-faces
• 2 Apartment Cut Re-faces (originally 3
  apartment buildings were impacted as a cut and
  reface but changes in design saved one)

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Design Progress

• 95 Design Completed
• Roadway
• Stations
• Systems
• Public and private utility design coordination
• Determination of real estate impacts on private
  properties

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Schedule

• Design Completion March 2009
• Civil Design March
• Systems Design April
• Royal Palms Mitigation May
• Park-and-Ride August
• Anticipated Construction Start Spring/Summer
  2009
• Opening Day December 2012

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I-10 West Extension
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High Capacity Transit System
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I-10 West Approvals to Date

• Recommendation for High Capacity Transit
  Improvements in the I-10 Right-of-Way west of
  I-17
• Phoenix City Council April 2008
• METRO Board June 2008
• MAG Regional Council July 2008

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Downtown LRT Alt. Alignments
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Schedule

• Complete Alternatives Analysis Fall 2009
• Defines route and transit mode
• Complete Environmental Impact Statement/Preliminar
  y Engineering Summer 2012
• Complete Final Design Summer 2014
• Initiate Construction Winter 2015
• Initiate Revenue Service 2019

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