[ncountylee]

Faught says she never meant to mislead legislators about the cost.

Not her fault if they can't read her mind.

[bert]

Why ride the train when you can drive on the Turquoise Trail?

[wyattearp]

With federal money added in, ...

Why is federal money (that would be MY money) being used for a local commuter train in only one state? It isn't an interstate highway, it doesn't involve interstate commerce; where exactly is the federal government getting it's authority to spend MY money in this fashion?

Grrrrr...

[Incorrigible]

If it made sense to build a passenger railroad in NM, private industry would have already proposed and financed it.

This is a way for the nuclear secret sharing gov to launder public money into his soon to be failed Presidential campaign.

Willie Green is deeply saddened!

[Cicero]

That's a lot of dough. People complain here in Vermont because the state subsidizes Amtrak for around $3 million a year (the last figure I heard).

$320 million for a fairly small state is outrageous.

[NormsRevenge]

Why don't they just build this into the SpacePort project?

[RJL]

Gov. Bill Richardson's commuter-train service would link Belen, Albuquerque and Santa Fe. With federal money added in, the total cost is now estimated at around $390 million, Faught said in an interview.

There’s nothing elite liberals love more than mass transit, especially a train, for the “little people”.