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Filed under: Arts and Culture, Business, Blogs, Transportation, News Last month, GrandLuxe Rail Journeys, a luxury train company we've blogged about in the past stopped operations due to financial woes. It's not that Americans aren't interested in train travel, Amtrak's business went up this summer, it just seems that fancy trains have a hard time making a go of it in the U.S.

Light rail train in downtown Phoenix (photo: Jack Kurtz, Arizona Republic) [Source: Glen Creno, Arizona Republic] — The people who planned the Metro light-rail route that opens Dec. 27 wanted to attract a lot of passengers, connect urban hubs, and provide an economic lift to neighborhoods along the line.

None of us can afford a Bentley, but nevertheless, this is a brilliant car. The trunk features an umbrella holder with the backseat sporting a cocktail set complete with shot glasses. The intricacy! The detail! The Arnage Final Series from Bentley is the last run of the Arnage, which was started in 1998.

[Source: Catherine Reagor, Arizona Republic] — There’s no doubt that too many new homes went up across metropolitan Phoenix during the 2004-06 boom.  What has been in dispute is just how “overbuilt” the housing market is now.  New research from the firm of Arizona economist and real-estate investor

Check the Timing Belt on These Luxury Cars By Corey Kilgannon A Bentley, part of a luxury car show this week at the World Financial Center. (Photo: Corey Kilgannon/The New York Times) Updated, 8:34 p.m. | They sure picked some week to hold Motorexpo, the high-priced car show at the World Financial Center.

[Source: Catherine Reagor, Arizona Republic] — The message delivered by top Valley real-estate and government leaders Tuesday at an annual growth conference at the Arizona Biltmore Resort & Spa was twofold: the Valley needs to invest billions in transportation and create more jobs closer to housing communities if it wants to handle the 6 million people expected to move here by 2050.

[Source: Arizona Republic] — Sustainable communities don’t just happen.  They take work, planning, and a web of collaborative relationships to build and grow.  That’s the message from members of the Growing Sustainable Communities in the Valley of the Sun coalition.  Teresa Brice, executive director

[Source: "Developer, Orpheum residents trade ire," Jahna Berry, Arizona Republic] — The residents at an upscale downtown Phoenix loft project were booted from the building’s parking lot this weekend, days after some condo owners accused the parking lot’s owner of “wrongdoing” in court papers.

Is there a deader horse to beat than the one about commercial airlines and airports? The overselling, the delays, the lack of in-flight goodies, and the security measures that don’t make any sense. (I can carry on two pints of milk for the kid, but my lip gloss is confiscated.) There’s also the other

[Source: Jahna Berry, Arizona Republic] — Banks are shying away from most high-rise condo proposals these days — even if the pitch comes from an overseas developer.  One Phoenix, a proposed 921-unit project on the northwest corner of Central Avenue and McDowell Road, is having a tough time getting