Comments on: Rail Runner FY 2008 Losses Top $19 Million, $37.6 Million Since Service Began http://www.errorsofenchantment.com/2009/12/13/rail-runner-fy-2008-losses-top-19-million-37-6-million-since-service-began/ Why is New Mexico not realizing its potential? Sun, 12 Feb 2012 14:02:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v= hourly 1 By: Paul Gessing http://www.errorsofenchantment.com/2009/12/13/rail-runner-fy-2008-losses-top-19-million-37-6-million-since-service-began/comment-page-1/#comment-1454 Paul Gessing Mon, 21 Dec 2009 00:30:40 +0000 http://www.errorsofenchantment.com/?p=1753#comment-1454 Ah, I love the transit-lovers' old canard that highways and airports "don't make money" and are somehow on par with transit. Well, check these charts out from the Department of Transportation: http://www.bts.gov/programs/federal_subsidies_to_passenger_transportation/pdf/entire.pdf Airports and roads are basically unsubsidized (because the users of these modes pay ticket and gas taxes for them). As the charts show, rail and transit are subsidized to the tune of more than 100 taxpayer dollars (not from users) per thousand miles. Simply put, highways and aviation would be just fine if the government got out of "helping" them at all. Transit and passenger rail are entirely dependent on taxpayer money. Ah, I love the transit-lovers’ old canard that highways and airports “don’t make money” and are somehow on par with transit. Well, check these charts out from the Department of Transportation: http://www.bts.gov/programs/federal_subsidies_to_passenger_transportation/pdf/entire.pdf

Airports and roads are basically unsubsidized (because the users of these modes pay ticket and gas taxes for them). As the charts show, rail and transit are subsidized to the tune of more than 100 taxpayer dollars (not from users) per thousand miles. Simply put, highways and aviation would be just fine if the government got out of “helping” them at all. Transit and passenger rail are entirely dependent on taxpayer money.

]]> By: Ronald C. Wallace http://www.errorsofenchantment.com/2009/12/13/rail-runner-fy-2008-losses-top-19-million-37-6-million-since-service-began/comment-page-1/#comment-1449 Ronald C. Wallace Sun, 20 Dec 2009 22:17:50 +0000 http://www.errorsofenchantment.com/?p=1753#comment-1449 Airports do not make money eather. Especially small airports, but you do not want to "pull the plug" on them. + I hope you don't complain the next time gas go to $4.00 per gallon. Every major country in the world (outside N. A. ) has a comprehensive train system. Even third world countries are building them. Argentinia for example. So what are we, a fourth world country. We can't even make a profit in toll roads, Indiana sold it's toll road to foreign interest. Other states are considering it. Airports do not make money eather. Especially small airports, but you do not want to “pull the plug” on them. +
I hope you don’t complain the next time gas go to $4.00 per gallon.

Every major country in the world (outside N. A. ) has a comprehensive train system. Even third world countries are building them. Argentinia for example. So what are we, a fourth world country.

We can’t even make a profit in toll roads, Indiana sold it’s toll road to foreign interest. Other states are considering it.

]]> By: Andrew http://www.errorsofenchantment.com/2009/12/13/rail-runner-fy-2008-losses-top-19-million-37-6-million-since-service-began/comment-page-1/#comment-1429 Andrew Sun, 20 Dec 2009 05:22:52 +0000 http://www.errorsofenchantment.com/?p=1753#comment-1429 Though you guys are ignoring that roads don't make money. Though you guys are ignoring that roads don’t make money.

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