[TRTR] [Fwd: Re: help!]

[Jens Pursche]

The problem with the Chile Line is that there is no reliable schedule.  I
have seen people waiting and waiting with no bus in sight.  

 

In the last 4 years Taos has turned from an easy and quick to navigate town
to a pedestrian zone.  Traffic is not moving.  Taos has seen increasing
numbers of visitors during the summer.  Also the town and the surrounding
area is getting more and more populated.

 

What Taos needs is a Detour around the plaza.  

 

 

Pursche Group Inc.

P.O. Box 3330

1200 Salida Del Sol Ln.

Taos, NM  87571

Phone:505-620-1260

Voicemail/Fax:505-758-4981

www.purschegroup.com 

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From: trtr-bounces at lists.laplaza.org [mailto:trtr-bounces at lists.laplaza.org]
On Behalf Of Coleen or Gary Ferguson
Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2007 9:36 AM
To: Joanne Forman; trtr at lists.laplaza.org
Subject: Re: [TRTR] [Fwd: Re: help!]

 

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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