Valley Metro Rail

Do you want to feel uncomfortable? Do you want to be hit up for money? Do you want to get sexually harassed? Then hop aboard the Valley Metro Light rail, where its slower than the average vehicle. While other light rails move very fast and have stops over the main roads, this silly light rail stops at all traffic lights.
While waiting for your ride, watch as the bums and drug addicts start asking around for drugs and digging in trash cans. They will approach you ask you for pretty much everything you have. This depends on the stop, but this happens normally from the airport onward west.
You might as well ride for free, no security ever comes on except in the mornings but they just ride for one stop. It gives the drug addicts and bums who stink the light rail car up a piece of mind.
Entertainment includes watching people tweak out and trip out, drunk guys being loud, bums and other dirty people coughing all over you, and if your a female, you get an all access pass to the sexual harassment show.
In the mornings when actual business people and students get on, watch as valley metro laughs and stuffs 200 people in one car as they only want to run the small light rail trains instead of the 3 – 4 cart long ones. You can experience people falling over, fighting over seats, and not allowing handicapped or pregnant women/​women with young children to sit in designated seats.
Your better off taking a bus as you won’t be approached by weirdos (unless your on those orbit buses in Tempe)
I only take the light rail when I need to get to downtown Phoenix for an event which is rare.

Usually love the light rail system, but tonight was ridiculous. I checked both online and their mobile app to ensure they ran until 2am, which both listed they ran well past. Trying to catch a ride at 12:30am I find out they have stopped service til 4am! I have no problem with you stopping service, but don’t advertiser you’re running until 2am if you’re not!

The light rail is pretty convenient and the stops for the train are pretty well planned
It gets busy during the day due to all the college students and people getting to and fro work
At night it can be pretty sketchy but there are several security officers who hop on and off the train to ensure safety as well as check to make sure everyone purchased a ticket…
This particular stop is a great place to hop on or off if you are trying to get to the main part of the ASU main campus
Also, I feel pretty safe at this station because it is near the hub of Tempe Police

This is near the mill and third stop on the valley metro rail which is where i like to hangout when i’m visiting phoenix. Its right next to the ASU campus so anybody who knows what college life is like will find the same things here namely plenty of bars, a mixture of reasonably priced restaurants, and a young crowd.

So, I do not need the Metro Rail with my lifestyle, and live in north Scottsdale in which the rail does not run thru yet. (GOOD!) I know people who use Metro rails in other cities and I have used systems such as this in San Fran, Chicago and NY. My daughter came to visit during Christmas this past month and she wanted to experience it with her children and husband. They dragged me along for their fun part of course! We drove ourselves to Tempe to catch it and decided to Light Rail towards Windsor Restaraunt in Phx-​Camelback and Central.4Well the timing was soooo wrong as it was about 4:45 pm and the sun was almost down so we thought we could watch the sunset from the inside of the rail. Umm, WRONG!!! We got on the Rail, and all the windows were DARK as night and you could NOT see outside! All we could watch was OUR BACKs from the type of morons on this train. BUMS-​Hey I have nothing against them and hopefully THEY wont PUT anything against me like a gun, or their dirty poopy pants or snotty fingers. These people LIVE on this Rail!!! NO official from the city, was securing this Rail system and it felt very dangerous! No Security what so ever! The only ‘other’ people we saw on the Rail were a few drunks coming and going from the sports event and pre teens with nothing to do in Phoenix who now have something to do– hop on and off wreaking of cig and pot smoke, and carry glass beer bottles and break them on the ground.
I do NOT what so ever recommend this type of transportation in Phx, Tempe! Also– the closest we could get dropped off to the Restaraunt (Windsor) we were headed to was NOT a place you ‘walk at night’ which was a super supe rbusy street (central Ave) and 5 blocks away. The ONLY thing I thought was good about the rail was it was very quiet and stopped and started quite nicely. I am NOT happy to know my Tax dollars are now locked up in The Light Rail for a preteen hangout and bum housing.

Love Phoenix’s Metro Light Rail. Quick, easy, convenient, & good price. Much easier than trying to park down town, cheaper than gas, & fun to covers with fellow Phoenicians. Can’t wait for the extensions to be built in Mesa & Phoenix! =)