Rail Runner: New Mexico Commuter Rail.
Rocky Mountain Construction, May, 2007
By Bruce Higgins
Service provides highway alternative through Rio Grande Valley, will reach Santa Fe in 2008
During the past two years, New Mexico has taken major steps toward establishing a commuter rail system linking Albuquerque and Santa Fe. Many cities have light rail systems to relieve highway traffic within the cities. Others have heavier rail systems, such as the Bay Area Rapid Transit that serves San Francisco Bay cities and towns. Demographics in New Mexico have not justified such a system and its heavy investment costs. It was predicted that rider totals would not make it a reasonable investment of taxpayer money.
As the decades have passed, property values within Albuquerque and Santa Fe have dramatically increased. These...
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