[TRTR] [Fwd: Re: help!]

[Coleen or Gary Ferguson]

For "destination resort" places... SF and Taos are the exceptions rather than the rule in mass transit...  Dillon County in Colo has literally 100's of buses that provide transportation throughout the area at no fare to the riders.  This system serves, Copper, Breckenridge, Arapahoe, Keystone, and other ski areas as well as the entire "urban" area.  Durango is similar, Steamboat is similar, and there are many others.  It's kinda like the Health Care in Canada/France/England/....  taxes are higher but the services are much higher...   Our (NM) GRT is already higher than the "sales tax" in most other places for little or no service so there is a systemic difference that needs to be understood and improved before any meaningful shift occurs, IMHO.  In many of these places parking is provided at no additional charge as well.  

If you look at TSV; parking and the shuttles are provided at no incremental cost and utilization is very high... then compare this to the normally empty Chile Line Vehicles and you start to see a picture that tells a consistent story.  It would be really interesting to run the experiment of offering rides on the Chile Line for 6 months at no fare to the passengers.  If the use stays the same, that would really tell an insightful story.

NM does have a constitutional challenge to "free"... the anti-donation clause.  But, somehow the RoadRunner Train has bypassed that little barrier to state funded transportation.  

just my $ 0.02 .

thanks, G.


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