New Mexico Rail Runner carries 100,000th passenger after only 1 month

On August 14, New Mexico Rail Runner carried their 100,000th passenger - just 1 month after the start of the service on July 14 of this year. Ridership has already reached a level of ~4,000 passengers every day - probably aided by the fact that riding Rail Runner is free for the first three months.

Posted in: Uncategorized | August 29, 2006 8:32 pm

3 Comments »

Ben, on August 30, 2006 @ 8:17 pm

Glad to see you’re posting again.

Anonymous, on September 19, 2006 @ 12:41 pm

The New Mexico Rail Runner is in the process of choosing a route to Santa FE, (Phase 2). No effort is being made to notify Santa Fe residents that they are in the path of a train.There are several existing neighborhoods in the 4 proposed alternate routes. If you live south of Santa Fe, LOOK OUT!

Marcel Marchon, on September 19, 2006 @ 12:43 pm

Hello anonymous,

you make it sound like having a train in your neighborhood - especially a passenger train - was a bad thing. I tend to disagree on that one. I think it would be good if more residential areas were concentrated along hubs of public transportation - then people wouldn’t have to use their cars that much.