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| - I have ridden the Light Rail train a few times since its inception, beginning with the debut free all-day ride. My favorite moment is attending a Fleetwood Mac concert to US Airways Center (now Talking Stick Arena), a round-trip generously paid for by US Airways. No traffic or parking hassles(!) with alot of fellow concertgoers joining the rides. For disabled riders, it's $2 all-day pass. Use of this mode of transportation is a hit or miss. I appreciate its invention and convenience. However, something's not enough or too much: getting around- even while usually better than that dreadful slowpoke city bus, is still limited. You can't actually ride around the entire city of Phoenix. Yet, still, you can get to downtown Mesa all the way from north-central Phoenix and vice-versa, on a pre-designated straightaway middle-of-road path. But, it attracts vagrants and some riders who grab a ride for free and hope to not get caught if a ticket checker hops in the last minute before the train moves, to catch 'em. While the train is wide enough to move around, wheelchair users, cyclists, strollers, obese, and poor/welfare have taken up so much space, thus causing discomfort among the inexperienced/sporadic riders. Just think with your mindset that anyone from all walks of life have ridden the Rail. The trains are, at times, clean- and get cleaned up per break stop. As is typical of "public" transportation, something is bound to be dirty or gross along the way- whether a spill or smelly riders. Just stay patient and positive, and ye shall survive- nobody bothered me ;) I see the city expands and improves the routes (I wish the Rail started when I was in college in the '80s, when I had to ride buses ;) ) Thanks for the (experimental) trips!
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