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Santa Fe - Six Miles
Route  Illustration

 

Raise $25 million to build a single lane Trolley loop around Santa Fe for 6 miles connecting to the Intermodal located at the NMDOT Headquarters site. This is the terminus of 60 mile regional rail connection to Albuquerque .  Santa Fe is a more delicate environment and a Skyways local trolley loop needs to be an at grade trolley instead of the overhead Skyways system. One lane is recommended to minimize traffic disruption. The Intermodal interconnects Skyways local trolley loop, a trolley to Lamy , Albuquerque regional rail, taxi, car rentals, parking bus, bicycles and regional vans

trolley route around Santa Fe connecting to Regional Rail

 

Proposal to New Mexico Dept of Transportation

 

Smartskyways Inc. is incubating a 50-city block research campus in Fort Collins, Colorado called Airpark Village. This will be based on an Automated Guideway Transport (AGT) infrastructure and alternative energy labs to fuel it. We invite NMDOT to jointly research with us the feasibility of attracting private funding for growing   New Mexico AGT routes based on this agenda as follows:

 

1.  Majority of funding will come from the private sector that is investing to earn a profit. We will bring to NMDOT prospective members of a Development Consortium from the neighborhoods in Albuquerque that have the largest development opportunities and/or existing ridership potential.

 

2. Smartskyways will sell a license to commercialize the technology developed at Airpark Village to the Development Consortium of public and private parties for costs plus a 3.5% royalty fee on capitalization and operating revenues.

 

3. The Development Consortium will work with NMDOT and the City of Albuquerque to propose a statewide backbone plan for review and comment prior to circulation for approvals.


4.  Once approved, Smartskyways will build a ¼ mile Model and Sales shop for $10 million provided by the Consortium. This will demonstrate the capital costs and automation to the public and to investors. Then Smartskyways and Consortium will market for a fully operational system for about $220 million of construction in Albuquerque. We estimate a 15-mile system in a route similar to the illustration below could earn enough profit to attract this magnitude of capital.

 

5. Smartskyways will provide NMDOT with a First Right of refusal (but not an obligation) to build the ¼ mile model on it’s headquarter property located in Santa Fe. This may become important someday because we expect this demo site to grow into the operations and control center. A Santa Fe 6-mile one way local circulator is proposed connecting to Commuter Rail at the NMDOT site

 

Smartskyways will work with Albuquerque and NMDOT to negotiate the terms of sale/donation to the City or State after 25 years of operations.

 

 

 

 

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