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Parking space requirements among many code reforms in …

2/10/2024
6 At its Feb. 8 meeting, the Chandler City Council gave preliminary approval to a list of more than a dozen code amendments — a broad, sweeping list that includes parking, space …

Chandler mayor pleased with outcome of transportation …

8/9/2023
While a compromise on Maricopa County’s transportation funding announced earlier this month doesn’t give all interested parties everything they wanted, the Chandler mayor and another key …

MAG, municipal leaders fight for transportation …

7/30/2023
As the clock ticks closer to the end of Proposition 400, a Maricopa County tax that historically has supported transportation projects and maintenance around the Valley, local officials report …

Here is Valley Metro's service for Independence Day

6/28/2023
In honor of Independence Day, bus, light rail and streetcar will operate on a Sunday schedule on Tuesday, July 4.

Hobbs negotiating with Republicans to craft deal to …

6/3/2023
PHOENIX — Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs is directly negotiating with Republican lawmakers who control the Arizona Legislature to try to craft a deal to ask Maricopa County voters to extend a half-cent sales tax that for nearly 40 years has paid for new freeways, bus routes and light rail transportation projects.

Gilbert council kills light rail, tables commuter rail …

3/8/2023
Light rail is doubly dead in Gilbert. While Valley Metro had no proposal for a line in Gilbert and town officials long had said they were opposed to it for town, the Gilbert Town Council took the …

Rail ordinances to compete with Gilbert mayor’s …

3/7/2023
A showdown on rail in town looms at the March 7 Gilbert Town Council meeting.  Gilbert Town Council members Jim Torgeson, Chuck Bongiovanni and Bobbi Buchli requested two more rail ordinance …

Gilbert mayor bringing rail ordinance back to council

3/3/2023
Less than two weeks after an anti-rail ordinance failed at Gilbert Town Council, Mayor Brigette Peterson has placed a new proposed ordinance on the March 7 council agenda.  The proposed …

Door still open for Gilbert anti-rail ordinance after …

2/23/2023
Gilbert Mayor Brigette Peterson left the door open for an ordinance that may limit rail in town, though Town Council rejected a strict prohibition against the use of town resources on the …

Gilbert Town Council takes on hot topics of rail, …

2/22/2023
Gilbert Town Council took up two heated issues from last fall, but the status quo did not change at council’s Feb. 21 meeting. 

Gilbert Town Council punts on transit station study 

8/24/2022
The Gilbert Town Council tabled a proposed feasibility study on transit stations in town at its Aug. 23 meeting, which was marked by dissension on the dais and a charged crowd criticizing council …

What to know about commuter rail in Gilbert

8/23/2022
In 1902, the Arizona Eastern Railway, looking to establish a rail line between Phoenix and Florence, asked for donations of right of way. Some of the track was built upon a donation from one …