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Transportation

Mesa is one of the three valley cities that will offer light rail service. METRO is building a premier regional light rail system to enhance mobility and strengthen the economic health of the community. A 20-mile starter line opened December, 2008, and six high capacity transit corridors are being planned that may include light-rail extension lines. In Mesa, that includes 2.7 miles of new transit service extending from the transit center at Sycamore and Main streets. For more information contact METRO at (602) 254-RAIL or www.metrolightrail.org.

Mesa has its own airports. Falcon Field and Phoenix-Mesa Gateway both of which serve private and executive aircraft. Commercial services at Gateway are expanding. Vision Air offers service to Las Vegas, and Allegiant Air is now offering service to Bellingham, Washington; Billings, Montana; Stockton, California; and Peoria, Illinois. Silver State Helicopters offers services to Sky Harbor Airport and throughout the state.

Public transportation is available throughout Mesa, with Valley Metro running business Monday through Saturday and six park-and-ride sites around the city, Valley Metro provides local circulators and shuttle services throughout Mesa.

State roadways that run through Mesa include Beeline Highway (AZ 87), Hohokam Expressway (AZ 143), Piestewa Parkway (AZ 51), Price/Pima Freeway (AZ 101), Red Mountain Freeway (AZ 202 N), and San Tan Freeway (AZ 202 S). Travelers can also benefit from driving along the U.S. 60 East Superstition Freeway. Interstates include the essential Black Canyon Freeway (I-17), serving as a north-south byway catering to commuters and commerce. Blue Canyon Freeway also connects to the Maricopa Freeway (I-10 E) and Papago Freeway (I-10 W), as well as I-40. These interstates are two of the United States’ major east-west byways. Nearly 25 continuous miles of SR Loop 303 are now open to traffic from Interstate 10 to Lake Pleasant Road.