The Future of Public Transportation in the New Mexico

It never fails to amaze me that some New Mexicans don’t like and don’t want public transportation. With the price of oil jumping every summer and its reliability being questionable at best New Mexico is the one state where the love of large cars and SUVs has not died out. The fact that most of us imports from back East grew up taking public transportation and would love to see it in the southwest still does not sink in to the local population of New Mexico.

The idea of a train going from Denver to El Paso is a wonderful idea that I for one would love to see in the future. I would love to be able to just hop on the train when something is happening in Denver such as a convention. I would love to take the train down to Mexico just to go shopping. I think that visiting Los Cruces would be fun if I did not have to drive the entire trip.

Back East people often take the train from Boston to New York just to spend time in another large city. They make friends with people that they might never get the chance to meet otherwise. A train across the state of New Mexico would build connections with people who otherwise would never have the opportunity to meet and maybe just maybe the south would better understand the northern viewpoint and the north might better understand the southern part of this state’s issues.

At no point in the past did large cities in the eastern part of this country stop to ask themselves if public transportation was needed or if it would cost too much because the benefits far out weighted the cost when it came to moving people from point A to point B. Public transportation build the culture of large cities back east.

The West is growing and more people will be moving to our fair state in the coming years so why not think past the present and into a bright future where people would happily take a train from the most southern city to the most northern city. Think of all the gas and carbon that would be unused if New Mexicans could travel all around our state and still leave their large cars and trucks at home. Think of the cultural diversity our children could experience in the future if parents could take them to any part of this state. We have a wonderful state that deserved to be explored and enjoyed by our children from all walks of life and what better way to do it then by building public transportation which will also protect their environment in the future. I use to think there was a lot of unused dirty on the Westside of Albuquerque but in just a few short years that area of the city have grown up and so it would not surprise me one bit if the area between Albuquerque and Los Cruces did not see a great deal of development in the next twenty years.