[TRTR] [Fwd: Re: help!]

[STEPHEN ELIZABETH ROBERTSON]

Taos has several alternative routes: Salazar or Medio to Placitas or Upper Las Colonias to Millicent Rogers.
Farther out, Blueberry Hill to Rte. 240.  Trouble is, there aren't enough east-west roads that give access from these routes to the Paseo so you can cut into it right where you want to.  But the County (and City?) planner is looking into creating such routes as we speak.
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Jens Pursche<mailto:jens at purschegroup.com> 
  To: 'Coleen or Gary Ferguson'<mailto:gnc at taosnet.com> ; 'Joanne Forman'<mailto:jofo at laplaza.org> ; trtr at lists.laplaza.org<mailto:trtr at lists.laplaza.org> 
  Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2007 4:59 PM
  Subject: Re: [TRTR] [Fwd: Re: help!]


  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<http://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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  Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2007 7:53 AM

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