Phoenix/Glendale - Getting around?

Anyone have any stories from 2007-2008 they'd like to share about getting around phoenix? Is there a lot of parking? How is taxi service??

Thanks!

Are you talking about game day transportation?

TommyBrady12 said:

Are you talking about game day transportation?

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That and just general transportation getting to superbowl central...

MossWelkowski said:

That and just general transportation getting to superbowl central...

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valley metro light rail might be the way to go.

http://www.valleymetro.org/metrolightrail

MossWelkowski said:

Anyone have any stories from 2007-2008 they'd like to share about getting around phoenix? Is there a lot of parking? How is taxi service??

Thanks!

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TommyBrady12 said:

valley metro light rail might be the way to go.

http://www.valleymetro.org/metrolightrail

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Yes the Metro is the way to go as far as getting to the SB. Phoenix is an urban sprawl so the last thing you want to do is splurge on a taxi. Far better off renting a car to get around. Sky Harbor has very reasonable rates.

Now, if you want a real Indiana Jones type of adventure, and to see the real Arizona, take that rental car and head out of Phoenix, west on 60, and go northeast on route 88, and go over the Apache trail pass to Roosevelt.

You won't regret it.

Its spread out.

Glendale is West of downtown out amongst the soybean fields. Maybe its gone now, but last time there was a pig farm very close the stadium. The locals call it Gundale. There is a fairly large outdoor/indoor mall like place with bars and restaurants directly across from the stadium. You can walk to and from.

Most of the nightlife and action was in Tempe and Scottsdale East of downtown off I 10. After parking, you can walk and hit lots of bars and restaurants. Very festive atmosphere. Tempe is a college town.

Downtown Phoenix was dead last Super Bowl. They were prepared but not many people went down there.

how to get from goodyear AZ to the super bowl without renting a car? It's only 7 miles.

The one think I remember from years ago was that the city has grid square streets. You couldn't possibly get lost. Coming from the north east where the street maps look like a five year old scribbling it just seemed weird.

Also front yards had rocks and cactus'ssss? cactii? Whatever, the women were hot.

We took a cab from Scottsdale to Glendale this season for the Eagles/Cardinals game. We set it up the day before. It was cheaper than a limo or van service. If you stay in Scottsdale I would use the dudes in the golf carts to get around. Do not use cabs for local service. There are lots of gypsy cab drivers that will rip you off. The guy we used to get us to the stadium was not a gypsy. No offense to any gypsys on this board.

Take it from a transplanted Worcesterite, Rent a car to get around. Phoenix is a post automobile city layed out in a grid pattern with the equivalent of freeway 6-8 lane wide city streets, every five blocks or so. The real freeway system has as much mileage as Massachusetts does.

There is parking everywhere, unlike back East. Just remember that metro Phoenix is geographically very large. If metro Phoenix were layed out over New England, it would stretch from Hartford to Merrimack North to South; and from Boston to Springfield East to West.

The best partying is in old town Scottsdale around 75 Street East. The Stadium is on 100th Avenue West. Everything counts from Central effectively 0th Street, (or 0th Avenue) counting up going East as Streets, and counting up going West as Avenues. So the difference between Scottstsdale partying and the Football stadium is 175 blocks and 45 minutes by car away.

The city father doinks started to rebuild a quaint trolley car system; but it is useless. It starts nowhere, and goes nowhere. You can't get to Scottsdale or the Stadium by trolley car or the Airport or ASU University either, for example.

By all means check out and go to the Patriots Fan Club which meets at Rosa Bar & Grill on Union Hills Blvd at around 20th Avenue West. I know that they are planning several events and Mr. Kraft and some Pats have been known to show up there.

Our winter is about over, so stay at a resort, party, play some Golf, gamble, at one of the Indian Casinos, and enjoy your stay in paradise.