The Light Rail is Here!!

So, the Metro Light Rail has arrived! (here are some pictures of my adventures on the light rail so far - mostly of my friends)The Metro Light Rail has taken 12 years to complete from thought to finish and for this first week it is free of charge so everyone can check it out. It very conveniently stops at Mill Ave and Sun Devil Stadium as well as the ASU Downtown campus!

My friends and I rode it last night to see how fun it was! This is Brandon showing you how nice it looks at the Mill station



This is Aida, Brandon, Brett, and I at the Sun Devil Stadium station - the light rail is still nice! (and yes, for our first ride we only rode it a block and back, hahaha) Partly, because we didn't have anywhere to go and mostly because it was PACKED!


Then today, my coworkers and I decided a trip to the Downtown Campus was in order to get some materials and have lunch! This was apparently the idea of every other person in Phoenix as well



We were having so much fun! (Nicole and Jennifer are my coworkers)



But on our return (PACKED) trip we were in the front train car when a car hit our light rail! yes, I made history by being on the first car/lightrail collision on a populated train (the first accident ever had already happened three weeks ago when an old lady crashed into a light rail on a test run)



But no one was even slightly injured - we didn't even know we had been clipped by a car, because it hit and ran - we did see the car drive away, apparently unscathed. We however were stopped in the middle of an intersection for about 20 minutes while light rail personnel and police showed up and our driver was replaced. I think he was more shaken than injured, or maybe it is just policy.

As you can see my coworker Marc and I still enjoyed the ride, even at a halt, and even while being in each other's personal space the whole time. did, I Mention it was PACKED!?