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4 buyers · 25 tenders · checked 2026-10-03

Valley Metro solicitation for 35-mile network and Tempe Streetcar (closes Sept 25, 2026); Capitol Extension dropped; $1.16bn program with $644m Rio East-Dobson.

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$1,161.1m Valley Metro Rail five-year capital programme FY27–FY31, of which $644.3m Rio East-Dobson streetcar extension and $215.1m West Phoenix; $2,752.8m of Proposition 400 corridor costs and $829.7m of other capital costs through FY30; more than $1.3bn of City of Phoenix high-capacity transit investment over five years; one open rail solicitation, for the operation of the whole network, with no published value
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Valley Metro Rail light rail at…35 miles, 58 stations, 12 park-and-ridesValley Metro Rail light rail at June 2026, as the agency's own board presentation on the Operations Cleaning Services award states the coverage area: a 35-mile alignment, 58 passenger stations and 12 park-and-rides, with about 60 light rail vehicles cleaned each night. The City of Phoenix's Transportation 2050 report puts the system at 35.1 miles, of which 23.4 are inside the City of Phoenix
2 sources · all primary
  • ● Valley Metro · June board meeting packet — agendas of 18 June 2026, Operations Cleaning Services contract award executive summary with the nine-offeror evaluation table, minutes of the 21 May 2026 meetings (136 pages) (published 2026-06-11 · checked 2026-09-14)
  • ● City of Phoenix · Transportation 2050 Annual Progress Report FY 2025 — high-capacity transit cumulative progress, grants received, Phoenix's FY2025 light rail allocation and the five-year HCT investment (37 pages) (published 2025 · checked 2026-09-14)
The opening of the South Centra…two lines since 7 June 2025The opening of the South Central Extension/Downtown Hub on 7 June 2025 turned Valley Metro Rail into a two-line system: the A line east–west between Gilbert Road/Main Street in Mesa and the Downtown Hub, the B line north–south between Metro Parkway in north-west Phoenix and Baseline/Central Avenue, meeting at a Downtown Hub of four platforms on Central Avenue, Washington Street, Jefferson Street and 1st Avenue. Weekday service runs every 12 minutes before 7 pm and every 20 minutes after
3 sources · all primary
  • ● Valley Metro · South Central Extension/Downtown Hub project page — opening of 7 June 2025, 5.5 miles, eight stations, $1.34 billion (published 2025 · checked 2026-09-14)
  • ● Valley Metro · South Central Extension/Downtown Hub Frequently Asked Questions, May 2025 — project scope, timeline and the full $1.34bn budget breakdown by funding source (published 2025-05 · checked 2026-09-14)
  • ● City of Phoenix · Transportation 2050 Annual Progress Report FY 2025 — high-capacity transit cumulative progress, grants received, Phoenix's FY2025 light rail allocation and the five-year HCT investment (37 pages) (published 2025 · checked 2026-09-14)
Two published ridership figures32,000 boardings a day, and a monthly figure that does not sit with itTwo published ridership figures, both the agency's own, and they do not reconcile. Valley Metro's South Central Extension project page, read on 14 September 2026, states as that page's own claim that the light rail system averages 32,000 boardings a day and that the extension is expected to add more than 8,000 daily riders. At the Joint Boards meeting of 21 May 2026 the chief executive said, in words the minute prints, 'In March alone, we saw 175,000 boardings across the light rail system', and that South Central was then carrying about 20 per cent of light rail boardings with Central/Baseline the third busiest station. FLAG: 175,000 in a month is about 5,600 a day against a page claiming 32,000 a day — roughly thirty times apart. Neither figure is corrected here: the daily figure is the project page's claim and the monthly figure is the chief executive's statement to the board, each is carried as what its own document says, and the agency publishes no reconciliation of the two in any document read for this file
2 sources · all primary
  • ● Valley Metro · South Central Extension/Downtown Hub project page — opening of 7 June 2025, 5.5 miles, eight stations, $1.34 billion (published 2025 · checked 2026-09-14)
  • ● Valley Metro · June board meeting packet — agendas of 18 June 2026, Operations Cleaning Services contract award executive summary with the nine-offeror evaluation table, minutes of the 21 May 2026 meetings (136 pages) (published 2026-06-11 · checked 2026-09-14)
The Valley Metro Rail FY27 oper…$208.3 million FY27 budgetThe Valley Metro Rail FY27 operating and capital budget of $208.3 million, approved by the Valley Metro Rail Board of Directors on 21 May 2026 together with acceptance of the five-year operating forecast and capital program for FY27 through FY31. The operating half is $129.8 million against $121.9 million in FY26, a rise of $7.9 million or 6 per cent; the capital half is $78.5 million against $133.0 million in FY26, a fall of $54.5 million or 41 per cent ($78,544 thousand against $133,001 thousand, a change of $54,457 thousand)
2 sources · all primary
  • ● Valley Metro · June board meeting packet — agendas of 18 June 2026, Operations Cleaning Services contract award executive summary with the nine-offeror evaluation table, minutes of the 21 May 2026 meetings (136 pages) (published 2026-06-11 · checked 2026-09-14)
  • ● Valley Metro · May board meeting packet — agendas of 21 May 2026, FY27 proposed operating and capital budgets, quarterly strategic plan update recording the Capitol Extension exit from the Capital Investment Grant process, purchase order registers (225 pages) (published 2026-05-14 · checked 2026-09-14)
Valley Metro Rail FY27 operatin…$117.7m light rail, $8.7m streetcarValley Metro Rail FY27 operating uses: light rail operations and maintenance $96.1 million and light rail security $21.5 million, a light rail subtotal of $117.7 million, up 7 per cent; streetcar operations and maintenance $7.4 million and streetcar security $1.2 million, a streetcar subtotal of $8.7 million, up 4 per cent; agency operating $3.5 million. Sources of funds: member city contributions $119.8 million, fares $5.8 million, federal $2.9 million, advertising $1.3 million and other $0.1 million
1 source · primary
  • ● Valley Metro · April board meeting packet — agendas of 16 April 2026, Valley Metro Rail FY27 preliminary operating and capital budget and FY27–FY31 five-year forecast and capital program, purchase order registers (167 pages) (published 2026-04-09 · checked 2026-09-14)
The Valley Metro Rail five-year…$1,161.1 million FY27–FY31The Valley Metro Rail five-year capital program accepted by the board on 21 May 2026, by use: Rio East Dobson Extension $644,288 thousand, West Phoenix $215,124 thousand, Future Project Development $127,844 thousand, State of Good Repair $127,218 thousand, Northwest Extension II $21,189 thousand, Systemwide Improvements $16,361 thousand and South Central/Downtown Hub $9,048 thousand; by source: federal funds $626,938 thousand, member city contributions $427,882 thousand, Public Transportation Funds $85,558 thousand and reserves/carryforward $20,696 thousand. The five-year operating programme alongside it is $699,243 thousand. The April 2026 packet carried the same programme as an information item with different figures — total uses $1,155,352 thousand, Rio East Dobson $638,441 thousand, Future Project Development $127,972 thousand, South Central/Downtown Hub $9,046 thousand, FY27 capital $78,565 thousand and five-year operating $699,248 thousand — and that set is the draft the board saw for information in April, superseded by the May set it accepted. The chief financial officer described the accepted programme to the board as 'about $1.2 billion program'
3 sources · all primary
  • ● Valley Metro · May board meeting packet — agendas of 21 May 2026, FY27 proposed operating and capital budgets, quarterly strategic plan update recording the Capitol Extension exit from the Capital Investment Grant process, purchase order registers (225 pages) (published 2026-05-14 · checked 2026-09-14)
  • ● Valley Metro · June board meeting packet — agendas of 18 June 2026, Operations Cleaning Services contract award executive summary with the nine-offeror evaluation table, minutes of the 21 May 2026 meetings (136 pages) (published 2026-06-11 · checked 2026-09-14)
  • ● Valley Metro · April board meeting packet — agendas of 16 April 2026, Valley Metro Rail FY27 preliminary operating and capital budget and FY27–FY31 five-year forecast and capital program, purchase order registers (167 pages) (published 2026-04-09 · checked 2026-09-14)
Valley Metro's 2026 Transit Lif…$2,752.8 million of corridor extensionsValley Metro's 2026 Transit Life Cycle Program corridor cost estimates, Proposition 400 project costs through FY30, with the 2025 figures behind them: Central Mesa $181.6m (unchanged), Northwest Phase I $323.1m (unchanged), Gilbert Road $180.2m (up $2.2m), Tempe Streetcar $206.1m (down $0.8m), Northwest Phase II $386.7m (up $5.5m), South Central/Downtown Hub $1,371.6m (up $2.0m), Capitol $26.7m (down $352.8m), I-10 West nil and West Phoenix $76.8m (new) — a subtotal of $2,752.8m against $3,019.9m in the 2025 update, a fall of $267.1m
1 source · primary
  • ● Valley Metro · REVISED August Valley Metro Board Meeting Packet — Joint Boards, RPTA and Valley Metro Rail agendas of 27 August 2026, minutes of the Joint Boards meeting of 18 June 2026, executive summaries, 2026 Prop 400 Transit Life Cycle Program Rail Update, monthly purchase order registers (192 pages) (published 2026-08-24 · checked 2026-09-14)
Valley Metro's 2026 Transit Lif…$829.7 million of other capital costsValley Metro's 2026 Transit Life Cycle Program other capital costs, Proposition 400 project costs through FY30: LRV Acquisition $103.2m, 50th Street Station $23.6m, OMC Expansion $60.9m, CP/EV Regional Reimbursements $272.4m, State of Good Repair $85.6m, Systemwide Improvements $38.1m, Corridor Planning/CPDA $151.6m and Design Standards & System Planning $94.3m — a subtotal of $829.7m against $755.0m in the 2025 update, a rise of $74.7m of which $69.0m is corridor planning
1 source · primary
  • ● Valley Metro · REVISED August Valley Metro Board Meeting Packet — Joint Boards, RPTA and Valley Metro Rail agendas of 27 August 2026, minutes of the Joint Boards meeting of 18 June 2026, executive summaries, 2026 Prop 400 Transit Life Cycle Program Rail Update, monthly purchase order registers (192 pages) (published 2026-08-24 · checked 2026-09-14)
The Proposition 400 rail model'…$3,643.4 million of programme revenuesThe Proposition 400 rail model's 2026 cash flow summary through FY30: total programme revenues $3,643.4m against a total base programme cost of $3,184.9m, a funding surplus of $458.5m before utility expenses and financing; non-prior-right utility relocations of $415.7m leave $42.8m; financing shows proceeds of $278.4m and debt service of $320.9m across the Series 2009/2016/2019 bonds ($83.6m proceeds, $102.2m debt service), the Series 2014 bonds ($134.8m, $156.4m) and advance funds by Phoenix ($60.0m, $62.3m), a net financing cost of $42.5m; total 2026 programme cost $3,643.1m and a net fund balance of $0.3m
1 source · primary
  • ● Valley Metro · REVISED August Valley Metro Board Meeting Packet — Joint Boards, RPTA and Valley Metro Rail agendas of 27 August 2026, minutes of the Joint Boards meeting of 18 June 2026, executive summaries, 2026 Prop 400 Transit Life Cycle Program Rail Update, monthly purchase order registers (192 pages) (published 2026-08-24 · checked 2026-09-14)
Valley Metro's 2026 Transit Lif…$3,641.0 million of capital revenuesValley Metro's 2026 Transit Life Cycle Program capital revenues through FY30, against the 2025 update: Public Transportation Funds $1,355.0m (up $0.9m), FTA Section 5309 $944.1m (down $192.3m, 16.9 per cent), CMAQ $504.7m (up $63.3m, 14.3 per cent), Phoenix T2050 $697.0m (down $73.3m, 9.5 per cent), other federal $52.1m, interest and other $31.2m (up $9.8m, 45.8 per cent), Tempe $19.3m, MAG/RPTA $19.9m, Mesa $16.8m, Chandler $0.8m and Glendale $0.1m — a subtotal of $3,641.0m against $3,829.9m, a fall of $188.9m or 4.9 per cent
1 source · primary
  • ● Valley Metro · REVISED August Valley Metro Board Meeting Packet — Joint Boards, RPTA and Valley Metro Rail agendas of 27 August 2026, minutes of the Joint Boards meeting of 18 June 2026, executive summaries, 2026 Prop 400 Transit Life Cycle Program Rail Update, monthly purchase order registers (192 pages) (published 2026-08-24 · checked 2026-09-14)
Proposition 400 was approved in…43.24 per cent of transit PTF to railProposition 400 was approved in November 2004 as a half-cent Maricopa County sales tax extending the 1985 freeway tax, with allocations fixed in state statute and no transfer between programmes: 33.3 per cent transit, 56.2 per cent freeway and 10.5 per cent arterial. Board policies adopted in October 2005 split the transit Public Transportation Fund 56.76 per cent to bus and 43.24 per cent to rail annually, each with its own balanced financial model. Proposition 400 has now expired: the 2026 programme update uses FY26 actual revenues rather than the October 2025 ADOT forecast, and rail PTF revenue came in at $110,525,000 in FY25 and $67,438,000 in FY26, $177,963,000 in total against a 2024 forecast baseline of $178,419,000 — a shortfall of $456,000, or 0.3 per cent, with lagging revenues still being received
1 source · primary
  • ● Valley Metro · REVISED August Valley Metro Board Meeting Packet — Joint Boards, RPTA and Valley Metro Rail agendas of 27 August 2026, minutes of the Joint Boards meeting of 18 June 2026, executive summaries, 2026 Prop 400 Transit Life Cycle Program Rail Update, monthly purchase order registers (192 pages) (published 2026-08-24 · checked 2026-09-14)
Proposition 400 Public Transpor…$56.1 million of Prop 400 left to programmeProposition 400 Public Transportation Fund programming for rail after FY2026, in Valley Metro's 2026 update: Northwest Phase II $3.7m ($0.9m in FY2028, $2.8m in FY2029), West Phoenix $48.8m (all FY2030), South Central minus $13.2m in FY2027 (a reimbursement), Capitol $0.1m in FY2027 and corridor planning for West Phoenix $16.7m across FY2027–FY2030 — $56.1m in all. Open years moved in the 2026 update: Capitol from 2029 to 'to be determined' and West Phoenix from nothing to 2037
1 source · primary
  • ● Valley Metro · REVISED August Valley Metro Board Meeting Packet — Joint Boards, RPTA and Valley Metro Rail agendas of 27 August 2026, minutes of the Joint Boards meeting of 18 June 2026, executive summaries, 2026 Prop 400 Transit Life Cycle Program Rail Update, monthly purchase order registers (192 pages) (published 2026-08-24 · checked 2026-09-14)
Phoenix Transportation 2050: a…$16.7 billion of sales tax over 35 yearsPhoenix Transportation 2050: a 0.7 per cent city sales tax effective 1 January 2016, estimated to generate about $16.7 billion over the life of the 35-year plan inside an estimated $31.5 billion of overall T2050 funding. High-capacity transit commitments are to continue existing light rail miles, add 42 miles of new light rail in Phoenix and build a new light rail station at 50th Street, completed 25 April 2019
2 sources · all primary
  • ● City of Phoenix · Transportation 2050 programme site — 0.7 per cent sales tax effective 1 January 2016, 35-year plan, about $16.7 billion of sales tax revenue (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-14)
  • ● City of Phoenix · Transportation 2050 Annual Progress Report FY 2025 — high-capacity transit cumulative progress, grants received, Phoenix's FY2025 light rail allocation and the five-year HCT investment (37 pages) (published 2025 · checked 2026-09-14)
City of Phoenix high-capacity t…11.9 miles and 15 stations since 2016City of Phoenix high-capacity transit cumulative progress from 1 January 2016 to 30 June 2025: 11.9 miles of new light rail in Phoenix and 15 new stations, with $906 million of grants received against T2050 matching funds — $709 million Capital Investment Grants, $102.5 million Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality, $81.6 million American Rescue Plan Act, $7.2 million transit-oriented development, $5.53 million Surface Transportation Block Grant and a $500,000 small business financial assistance pilot programme grant. Phoenix allocated $290 million in FY2025 to light rail operations and expansion
1 source · primary
  • ● City of Phoenix · Transportation 2050 Annual Progress Report FY 2025 — high-capacity transit cumulative progress, grants received, Phoenix's FY2025 light rail allocation and the five-year HCT investment (37 pages) (published 2025 · checked 2026-09-14)
The Light Rail Transit Funds Di…$5.56 billion total funds across seven linesThe Light Rail Transit Funds Distribution graphic on page 24 of the City of Phoenix Transportation 2050 Annual Progress Report FY2025 distributes $5.56 billion across seven light rail lines, each bar stacked by funding source: Capital Investment Grants, Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality, American Rescue Plan Act, Proposition 400 (Public Transportation Fund) and T2050. The seven labels and seven figures pair one to one, by row: 50th Street Station $22.90M; Northwest Extension Phase II $401.30M; South Central Extension/Downtown Hub $1.35B; Capitol Extension $374.70M; West Phoenix Transit Corridor Study $1.00M; I-10 West Extension $2.70B; West Phoenix Extension $717.50M. They sum to $5,567.4 million against the graphic's printed TOTAL FUNDS of $5.56B. The pairing was established twice on 14 September 2026 — by rendering the page at 300 dpi, where the chart draws with every label, and from the page's own text layer, where each label and its figure share a y-coordinate. These are the city's distribution of funds over the life of Transportation 2050 and are not budgets, programme costs or awards; three of them can be set beside figures in this file from independent documents — $401.30M against the Northwest Extension Phase II fact sheet's $401 million, $1.35B against the South Central FAQ's $1.34 billion, and $2.70B against a Valley Metro programme table that prints no figure at all for the I-10 West corridor
4 sources · all primary
  • ● City of Phoenix · Transportation 2050 Annual Progress Report FY 2025 — high-capacity transit cumulative progress, grants received, Phoenix's FY2025 light rail allocation and the five-year HCT investment (37 pages) (published 2025 · checked 2026-09-14)
  • ● Valley Metro · Northwest Extension Phase II fact sheet, March 2024 — $401 million funding total with the three-source split, construction quantities, project overview (published 2024-03 · checked 2026-09-14)
  • ● Valley Metro · South Central Extension/Downtown Hub Frequently Asked Questions, May 2025 — project scope, timeline and the full $1.34bn budget breakdown by funding source (published 2025-05 · checked 2026-09-14)
  • ● Valley Metro · REVISED August Valley Metro Board Meeting Packet — Joint Boards, RPTA and Valley Metro Rail agendas of 27 August 2026, minutes of the Joint Boards meeting of 18 June 2026, executive summaries, 2026 Prop 400 Transit Life Cycle Program Rail Update, monthly purchase order registers (192 pages) (published 2026-08-24 · checked 2026-09-14)
ADOT's 2022 State Rail Plan upd…two Class I railroads and nine short linesADOT's 2022 State Rail Plan update: the Arizona rail network comprises BNSF Railway and Union Pacific Railroad plus nine short line railroads, eight of them operational, totalling 478 miles — Arizona & California 164, Arizona Eastern 135, Copper Basin 68, Apache Railway 46, Clarkdale Arizona Central 38, San Pedro & Southwestern 20, Drake Switching 4, Kingman Terminal 3, and Black Mesa & Lake Powell, which ceased operations in 2019. BNSF's Southern Transcon, completed in 1908, crosses northern Arizona and carries over 100 trains a day; Union Pacific's Sunset Route crosses the south through Yuma and Tucson connecting Los Angeles and Houston and handles approximately 20 per cent of that railroad's total traffic, and the railroad has been building a second parallel track since acquiring the route with the Southern Pacific
1 source · primary
  • ● Arizona Department of Transportation · Arizona State Rail Plan Update (2022) — the Arizona rail network, two Class I railroads and nine short lines, 478 short line miles, Amtrak stations and FY2018 boardings, highway-rail crossing crash tables (212 pages) (published 2022-10 · checked 2026-09-14)
ADOT's 2022 State Rail Plan upd…105,245 boardings and alightings in FY2018ADOT's 2022 State Rail Plan update: two Amtrak routes serve Arizona — the Southwest Chief daily over BNSF's line across the northern tier and the Sunset Limited three days a week in each direction over the Union Pacific corridor in the south — calling at Winslow, Flagstaff, Williams Junction and Kingman (Southwest Chief) and Benson, Tucson, Maricopa and Yuma (Sunset Limited). FY2018 boardings and alightings: Flagstaff 43,412, Tucson 28,163, Maricopa 11,744, Kingman 9,065, Yuma 4,525, Winslow 4,345, Williams Junction 2,032 and Benson 1,939 — 58,854 on the Southwest Chief and 46,391 on the Sunset Limited, 105,245 in all, down from 107,300 in 2016. FLAG: the plan's own arithmetic does not close. The four Southwest Chief stations sum to 58,854 as printed, but the four Sunset Limited stations sum to 46,371 against a printed subtotal of 46,391, and the eight station figures together sum to 105,225 against a printed total of 105,245. The plan's printed subtotals and total are carried and the twenty-journey difference is recorded, not reconciled. A THIRD figure sits on the same page: the plan's own summary paragraph above the table says 'a total of 107,287 passengers got on or off of trains in Arizona during federal fiscal year 2018', where the table beneath it prints 105,245 and the following page says ridership fell 'from 107,300 passengers to 105,245'. All three are the plan's own and all three are recorded here. The plan records that Phoenix has no passenger rail service, Maricopa being the closest station
1 source · primary
  • ● Arizona Department of Transportation · Arizona State Rail Plan Update (2022) — the Arizona rail network, two Class I railroads and nine short lines, 478 short line miles, Amtrak stations and FY2018 boardings, highway-rail crossing crash tables (212 pages) (published 2022-10 · checked 2026-09-14)
ADOT's 2022 State Rail Plan upd…700 crossings, 105 crashes 2015–2019ADOT's 2022 State Rail Plan update, from the FRA Highway-Rail Crossing Inventory Database: 105 highway-rail crossing crashes in Arizona between 2015 and 2019 with 16 deaths and 29 injuries, across 700 crossings. Maricopa County, with 268 crossings — 38 per cent of the state total — had 65 of the crashes, 62 per cent, which the plan explains by the number of vehicles in the county; Pinal County has 92 crossings and Pima 63. Coconino County led in fatalities with five; Pima and Pinal had four each
1 source · primary
  • ● Arizona Department of Transportation · Arizona State Rail Plan Update (2022) — the Arizona rail network, two Class I railroads and nine short lines, 478 short line miles, Amtrak stations and FY2018 boardings, highway-rail crossing crash tables (212 pages) (published 2022-10 · checked 2026-09-14)
The Federal Railroad Administra…$500,000 Step 1, no Step 2The Federal Railroad Administration's Corridor ID Program monthly obligation status report, last updated 31 March 2026, records the Phoenix – Tucson Corridor with Arizona DOT as sponsor at a Step 1 obligation of $500,000 made on 8 May 2024, and no Step 2 or Step 3 obligation. The same report records Amtrak's Daily Sunset Limited Service at a Step 1 obligation of $500,000 made on 15 August 2024, a corridor that overlaps the Phoenix–Tucson route on the same Union Pacific tracks and which would reestablish Sunset Limited service to Phoenix. ADOT states that the FRA approved its Step 1 work plan — scope, schedule and cost estimate for a service development plan — in June 2025, that work on the plan can begin after approval of a federal grant, that the plan is expected to take about two to three years, and that the corridor is not currently funded for implementation
4 sources · all primary
  • ● Federal Railroad Administration · Corridor ID Program Monthly Obligation Status Report, last updated 31 March 2026 — Phoenix–Tucson Corridor, Arizona DOT, Step 1 obligation 8 May 2024, $500,000, no Step 2 or Step 3 obligation; Daily Sunset Limited Service, Amtrak, Step 1 obligation 15 August 2024, $500,000 (published 2026-03-31 · checked 2026-09-14)
  • ● Federal Railroad Administration · FRA's Corridor ID Obligation Status Report — eLibrary landing page (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-14)
  • ● Arizona Department of Transportation · Phoenix-Tucson Intercity Passenger Rail Corridor Study — Corridor Identification and Development Program grant, 158-mile corridor, FRA approval of the Step 1 work plan in June 2025 and the three programme steps (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-14)
  • ● Arizona Department of Transportation · Phoenix-Tucson Intercity Passenger Rail Corridor Study fact sheet — 158-mile segment of the Union Pacific corridor, the 2016 Tier 1 EIS and Record of Decision, and the statement that the corridor is not currently funded for implementation (published 2026-04 · checked 2026-09-14)
The Federal Transit Administrat…one project, and it is a busThe Federal Transit Administration's Capital Investment Grants dashboard, last updated 10 September 2026, carries exactly one Arizona project: Stone Avenue BRT, sponsor City of Tucson, in project development, 4.9 miles, ten stations, 4.4 miles of exclusive bus rapid transit running way, $137.1 million project cost, $82.3 million CIG funding request, a 60 per cent CIG share, a medium rating, in progress, revenue service anticipated late 2028. The row's dates key to their columns and are recorded as such: project-development entry 9/14/2023; engineering entry N/A; NEPA completion blank; project rating request Aug 2025; project rating Nov 2025; no letter-of-no-prejudice request or decision. The keying was done on the dashboard's own geometry — the page is rotated, each project is a column and each field a row, and every value's mid-point aligns with its field label, 9/14/2023 sitting in the same project-development-entry row as Utah's FrontRunner 2X (11/02/2022) and SacRT's Downtown Riverfront Streetcar (05/01/2014). The Downtown Riverfront Streetcar row carries the same number of dates as Stone Avenue, so an earlier note saying the row carried one fewer date than comparable rows was wrong. No Arizona rail project appears. Valley Metro and the City of Phoenix notified the FTA that the Capitol Extension will exit the Capital Investment Grant process following the Phoenix City Council vote of 27 January 2026
4 sources · all primary
  • ● Federal Transit Administration · Capital Investment Grants Dashboard, last updated 10 September 2026 — the only Arizona entry is Stone Avenue BRT, City of Tucson, project development, $137.1m project cost, $82.3m CIG request, 60 per cent CIG share (published 2026-09-10 · checked 2026-09-14)
  • ● Federal Transit Administration · Capital Investment Grant (CIG) Dashboard (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-14)
  • ● Valley Metro · Capitol Extension project page — the Phoenix City Council vote of 27 January 2026 and Valley Metro's statement that it will exit project development and the Capital Investment Grant process (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-14)
  • ● Valley Metro · May board meeting packet — agendas of 21 May 2026, FY27 proposed operating and capital budgets, quarterly strategic plan update recording the Capitol Extension exit from the Capital Investment Grant process, purchase order registers (225 pages) (published 2026-05-14 · checked 2026-09-14)
Valley Metro's procurement port…one open rail solicitationValley Metro's procurement portal, read on 14 September 2026 with departmentId=all and limit=100 for each status, listed exactly two open solicitations — Light Rail and Streetcar Operations (2025-RFP-061, closing 25 September 2026) and a Public Notice of Intent to Award a Sole Source Contract for Light Rail Vehicle Repair (2026-SS-104, closing 18 September 2026) — seven pending and no coming-soon projects; the Closed list, requested the same way, rendered on a single page, and limit=100 is the page size asked for rather than a count, so no number of closed records is asserted here. On the same date and on the writer's own read of those portals, the City of Phoenix portal held seventeen open solicitations, none rail, and the City of Tucson portal eight, none rail — counts recorded as what was observed on 14 September 2026, not re-verified since, because the portals' status filter cannot be applied from the URL; Sun Tran's own page one, for support vehicle tyres; the Arizona Procurement Portal none across eleven rail search terms; ADOT's construction advertisement list fourteen projects, none rail; a SAM.gov sweep across eleven rail terms returned no federal rail opportunity with an Arizona place of performance; and MAG one consultant solicitation, a community network strategic plan
9 sources · all primary
  • ● Valley Metro · Valley Metro Procurement Portal on OpenGov Procurement — Active, Coming Soon, Pending and Closed project lists (read with departmentId=all and limit=100 for each status on 14 September 2026) (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-14)
  • ● City of Phoenix · City of Phoenix Procurement Portal on OpenGov Procurement — Active project list read with departmentId=all, status=open, page=1 and limit=100 on 14 September 2026 (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-14)
  • ● City of Tucson · City of Tucson Procurement Portal on OpenGov Procurement — Active and Closed project lists read with departmentId=all and limit=100 on 14 September 2026 (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-14)
  • ● City of Tucson (Sun Tran / Sun Link) · Procurement — Sun Tran, Sun Link and Sun Van business opportunities, current solicitations list, vendor registration and the procurement mailing address (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-14)
  • ● State of Arizona · Arizona Procurement Portal (APP) — public request-for-proposals browse (Ivalua), searched on 14 September 2026 for rail, light rail, streetcar, track, transit, grade crossing, locomotive, crossing, railcar, catenary, rolling stock and Valley Metro (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-14)
  • ● Arizona Department of Transportation · Current Advertisements — ADOT construction contracts and specifications advertisement list (the iframe behind azdot.gov/business/contracts-and-specifications/current-advertisements), fourteen projects, last updated 14 September 2026 11:09 AM (published 2026-09-14 · checked 2026-09-14)
  • ● US General Services Administration · SAM.gov contract opportunities — public search service, swept on 14 September 2026 across eleven rail terms with client-side filtering for Arizona (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-14)
  • ● Maricopa Association of Governments · RFPs & RFQs — open consultant solicitations; on 14 September 2026 the only open item was the FY 2027 Regional Community Network Strategic Plan, closing 16 September 2026 (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-14)
  • ● Maricopa Association of Governments · About MAG — MAG as council of governments and metropolitan planning organization, 28 cities and towns, three Native nations, ADOT, Maricopa County and parts of Pinal County, implementation of Proposition 479, and the statement that MAG plans and allocates funding for the regional transportation system including transit (published 2026 · checked 2026-09-14)

Buyers

BuyerTypeTendersContracts awarded
Valley Metro (Valley Metro Rail, Inc. and the Regional Public Transportation Authority)Transit authority245
City of Phoenix Public Transit DepartmentTransit authority10
Arizona Department of TransportationState DOT00
City of Tucson (Department of Transportation and Mobility; Sun Link streetcar)Transit authority00

Tenders

TenderBuyerStatusValue bandNext key date
Valley Metro light rail streetcar operations five-yearValley MetroOpenvalue not published
Three Siemens S700 light rail vehiclesValley MetroAwarded$25–100m
Operations cleaning ABM Industries Group DexterraValley MetroAwarded$5–25m
South Central Extension Downtown Hub KiewitValley MetroIn executionover $1bnCompletion 2019
Central Mesa Extension light railValley MetroIn execution$100–500m
Gilbert Road Extension A line terminusValley MetroIn execution$100–500m
Northwest Extension Phase I light railValley MetroIn execution$100–500m
Northwest Extension Phase II light railValley MetroIn execution$100–500mCompletion August 2020
Tempe Streetcar Mill Ash BrookvilleValley MetroIn execution$100–500m
DMS Facility Services operations cleaning endedValley MetroIn execution$25–100mContract runs to June 2026
Program management Infenix Capitol Rio East-DobsonValley MetroIn execution$25–100mPublished March 2025
50th Street Station Washington light railValley MetroIn execution$5–25m
I-10 West Extension light railValley MetroPlannedover $1bn
Phoenix Transportation 2050 high-capacity transitPhoenix PTDPlannedmore than USD 1.3bn over five years, as the city publishes it; a floor, not a range
Rio East-Dobson Streetcar Extension designValley MetroPlanned$500m–1bn
Corridor Planning CPDA West PhoenixValley MetroPlanned$100–500m
Future Project Development Valley MetroValley MetroPlanned$100–500m
Light rail vehicle acquisition S700Valley MetroPlanned$100–500m
State of Good Repair renewalsValley MetroPlanned$100–500m
West Phoenix Extension Indian School RoadValley MetroPlanned$100–500m
Capitol Extension deferred January 2026Valley MetroPlanned$25–100m
Design Standards System PlanningValley MetroPlanned$25–100m
Operations Maintenance Center expansionValley MetroPlanned$25–100m
Systemwide Improvements light railValley MetroPlanned$25–100m
Siemens S700 single light rail replacementValley MetroPlanned$5–25m

Cities

CityNetwork statusNetworks
Phoenixoperational — Valley Metro Rail's two light rail lines meet at the four-platform Downtown Hub opened on 7 June 2025; 23.4 of the system's 35.1 route miles are inside the City of Phoenix. The A line runs east–west between Gilbert Road/Main Street in Mesa and the Downtown Hub, the B line north–south between Metro Parkway in north-west Phoenix and Baseline Road/Central Avenue in south Phoenix. Phoenix has no intercity passenger rail service: Amtrak's Sunset Limited calls at Maricopa, about thirty miles south, which ADOT's state rail plan names as the closest station to Phoenix. The plan records that the Sunset Limited also serves as an extension of the Texas Eagle service, providing an alternative Chicago–Los Angeles train, and that it joins the Sunset Limited at San Antonio; the plan's own station table lists two Amtrak services in Arizona, the Southwest Chief and the Sunset Limited.Valley Metro Rail A line; Valley Metro Rail B line
Tempeoperational — a Valley Metro Rail member city on the A line, and the home of the Tempe Streetcar, the Valley's first modern streetcar, which opened in May 2022 on Mill and Ash avenues between Rio Salado Parkway/Marina Heights and Dorsey Lane/Apache Boulevard. The planned Rio East-Dobson extension would take the streetcar 4.35 miles east from Marina Heights into Mesa; its locally preferred alternative was adopted by the Tempe and Mesa city councils in December 2024.Valley Metro Rail A line; Valley Metro Streetcar (Tempe Streetcar)
Mesaoperational — a Valley Metro Rail member city and the eastern end of the network: the A line terminates at Gilbert Road/Main Street, reached by the Central Mesa and Gilbert Road extensions. The planned Rio East-Dobson streetcar extension would run east along Rio Salado Parkway into Mesa and south on Dobson Road to Main Street.Valley Metro Rail A line
Tucsonoperational — the City of Tucson runs the Sun Link modern streetcar through downtown and the University of Arizona district, alongside Sun Tran buses. Amtrak's Sunset Limited calls at Tucson, which ADOT's 2022 state rail plan records as the state's second-busiest Amtrak station with 28,163 boardings and alightings in FY2018. The plan records that the Sunset Limited also serves as an extension of the Texas Eagle service, providing an alternative Chicago–Los Angeles train, and that it joins the Sunset Limited at San Antonio; the plan's own station table lists two Amtrak services in Arizona, the Southwest Chief and the Sunset Limited. Union Pacific's Sunset Route runs through the city. Tucson is the sponsor of the Stone Avenue bus rapid transit project, the only Arizona entry on the federal Capital Investment Grants dashboard.Sun Link streetcar; Amtrak Sunset Limited
Flagstaffintercity rail only — Amtrak's Southwest Chief calls daily at Flagstaff over BNSF's line across northern Arizona, and ADOT's 2022 state rail plan records Flagstaff as the state's busiest Amtrak station with 43,412 boardings and alightings in FY2018. BNSF's Southern Transcon, completed in 1908, runs through the city and carries over 100 trains a day. No urban rail.Amtrak Southwest Chief
Maricopaintercity rail only — Amtrak's Sunset Limited calls at Maricopa on Union Pacific's Sunset Route three days a week in each direction; ADOT's 2022 state rail plan names Maricopa as the closest passenger rail station to Phoenix, which has none, and records 11,744 boardings and alightings there in FY2018. The station sits on the corridor ADOT is studying for Phoenix–Tucson intercity passenger rail. The plan records that the Sunset Limited also serves as an extension of the Texas Eagle service, providing an alternative Chicago–Los Angeles train, and that it joins the Sunset Limited at San Antonio; the plan's own station table lists two Amtrak services in Arizona, the Southwest Chief and the Sunset Limited.Amtrak Sunset Limited
Yumaintercity rail only — Amtrak's Sunset Limited calls at Yuma on Union Pacific's Sunset Route, which crosses southern Arizona connecting Los Angeles and Houston; ADOT's 2022 state rail plan records 4,525 boardings and alightings at Yuma in FY2018. The plan records that the Sunset Limited also serves as an extension of the Texas Eagle service, providing an alternative Chicago–Los Angeles train, and that it joins the Sunset Limited at San Antonio; the plan's own station table lists two Amtrak services in Arizona, the Southwest Chief and the Sunset Limited. No urban rail.Amtrak Sunset Limited
Kingmanintercity and freight rail only — Amtrak's Southwest Chief calls at Kingman, with 9,065 boardings and alightings in FY2018 on ADOT's 2022 state rail plan. Kingman Airport and Industrial Park is, on that plan's account, the only Arizona industrial park operating its own railroad: the three-mile Kingman Terminal Railroad provides switching over a 1,225-acre site adjacent to the BNSF main line, with seventy businesses on the facility.Amtrak Southwest Chief
Winslowintercity and freight rail only — Amtrak's Southwest Chief calls at Winslow on BNSF's Southern Transcon, with 4,345 boardings and alightings in FY2018 on ADOT's 2022 state rail plan. No urban rail.Amtrak Southwest Chief

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