Business Hopes Light Rail Will Provide Customers — the Hard Way

[jump] Worried about crashing into a light rail train? This company's got you covered. We spotted this sign at a repair shop near 28th Street and Washington, along the light rail line. This probably isn't what light-rail boosters had in mind when they said the train system would help businesses in the...
By Ray Stern
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Worried about crashing into a light rail train? This company’s got you covered. We spotted this sign at a repair shop near 28th Street and Washington, along the light rail line.

This probably isn’t what light-rail boosters had in mind when they said the train system would help businesses in the long run. But if the rate of vehicle-on-train collisions keeps up, this company may find a few takers for the 25 percent discount.

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Ray Stern is the former news editor of Phoenix New Times. He worked as a newspaper reporter in Arizona for more than two decades. He’s won numerous awards for his reporting, including the Arizona Press Club’s Don Bolles Award for Investigative Journalism.

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