Phoenix restaurant celebrates light rail success with swag

Five businesses that will help you live carfree
Grocery shopping, picking up dry cleaning and any errands that normally require a car can be especially tricky when you’re carfree in Phoenix. Alternative transportation like the light rail, a bike or even a Zipcar (car sharing program) can get you around, however I’m curbing my use of the latter after my record carfree spending month in October. Running errands is not a huge problem when you’re carfree, but the wire basket attached to the handle

CenPho cycle chic
Function in sportswear helps people excel during recreational activities.  Swimmers wear speedos to reduce the amount of drag in excess material on a pair of trunks.  Football players wear a cleated sole for traction on the gridiron. Then there are bicyclists who wear helmets to protect their heads and in some cases a special shoe that locks with the pedal for endurance racing.  However not everyone rides like they’re racing the winding roads of the Tour de France, but rather the using their people powered form of transportation in an effort to live carfree.  In an effort to save some money, I wanted to ride my bike to a lunch meeting as opposed to calling a cab. I wasn’t

Carfree spending
There are many benefits to living carfree, but if you’re not careful it can also cost you alot of money.  During the month of October, I calculated how much I was spending living carfree – between using taxis and Zipcars as alternative modes of transportation.  Did I succeed in spending less…or more…than when I owned a car? People who looked at this item also looked at… New downtown coffeebar Single and carfree

Guest blog: 10 easy things to do to promote business along light rail
I’ve been a light rail supporter for a long time.  My job is one block from the Central and McDowell station, so I take light rail a lot to attend meetings or events in downtown Phoenix (and not have to worry about parking).   Because of my uncanny ability to miss a train “by that much,” I sit down and catch up on e-mail at the station while thinking of what tasty Italian dishes are being whipped up at The Old Spaghetti Factory across the street.  I then board and go on my merry way when the next train pulls up.

You don’t need to own a car to have fun in Phoenix
I had two goals Thursday night.  Goal number one: get to the Celebrity Chef Tour at the Phoenician Resort without spending alot of money on a Zipcar. Goal number two: take a picture with headlining Celebrity Chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten. I realize these two goals together may seem odd, so here’s the backstory… You may have seen in my video blogs (video widget to the right) which detailed how much money I spent during the month of October using alternative modes of transportaton – namely the Zipcar. As I mentioned in my vlog – I love the Zipcar convenience, but if you̵