Metro Phoenix residents may be wedded to their cars, but a light-rail system operational since 2009 has still exceeded ridership expectations and spurred development, from housing to an IHOP that offers riders breakfast to go.
A Hillsborough County contingent is heading to Tampa next week to see what they can learn from the system, which was 20 years and many votes in the making.
In Sunday's Tampa Tribune, we'll give you a peek into what they'll see, from Valley Metro's successes and where they could improve and what this could mean to Hillsborough, whose voters will be asked in November to approve a 1-cent on the dollar sales tax increase in part, to pay for rail.
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