The Blue Line WAS a North/South bus loop winding from concrete Paradise Valley Mall down to some South Phoenix oasis (probably a myth since I've never been there) called the "Ed Pastor Center", and back again.
The Blue Line WAS great because I could pick it up just outside my home near Squaw Peak and ride it through the Camelback corridor, down Central to downtown. Without a transfer.
That's all changed with light rail. Instead of proceeding down Central to downtown, the line's new southern terminus is Central and Camelback, a fortuitous endpoint for Sweet Tomatoes & Applebees' afficionados but not so great for citizenry with taste. Or places to go. Like, uh, me. Now I trudge off the bus, sneer at Applebee's and get my cancerous tan waiting for ostensibly convenient light rail to venture downtown.
It's worse coming back, timing the transfer, cuz the bus back to my house only runs every half hour. This "new improved" Blue Line (they now call it the 39, presumably for the extra minutes they've tacked onto my trip) is makin' me blue.
On second thought, maybe I'll just hop in the car :- ( read more