Ridership has soared beyond all expectations. Our population is too dispersed to enable an efficient RR system. Rail transit systems make excellent pathways to facilitate sensible growth and rejuvenation of rundown communities and neighborhoods. Passenger railroads require public subsidy and use up tax dollars. It has been proven that for every dollar a person spends on Rail fare or tax, they get several back in car savings alone.
People have the right to choose how they get around.
We are promoting MORE choices, not fewer. This map shows the various commuter rail lines under consideration by those people involved in bringing passenger rail back to central New Mexico. These cars can be leased from many localities in the USA or Canada. The above map shows the system designed in 1996 for the Bernalillo County Transportation Development District by E.P. Hamilton and Associates titled The New Mexico Regional Rail Demonstration Project. According to our sources, this line could become operational within four months of the go-ahead.