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Transit Across New Mexico www.ctaa.org CONTENTS 1 FEATURES DEPARTMENTS 4 From the Editor- Taos in-Chief Chile Line Publisher Dale J. Marsico, CCTM Page 18 Los Alamos Atomic City Transit Editor-in-Chief Santa Fe Scott Bogren Page 6 (CT Podcast) Voices from the New Mexico DOT 6 Community Editor Page 8 Rich Sampson New Mexico Rail Runner Express Santa Fe Contributors Page 21 Santa Fe Trails Kevin Coggin Page 25 Mike Davis Albuquerque Anthony Frederick ABQ Ride 40 Transit Notes David Harris Page 12 Larry Harman Clovis Chris Zeilinger Clovis Area Transit System Page 29 Circulation Please direct all circulation questions to [email protected] About Us Ruidoso Downs 42 Finance Lincoln County Transit Don Browner Page 33 Editorial Offices 1341 G Street, NW - 10th Floor Washington, DC 20005 Perspectives Email: [email protected] 44 Web: www.ctaa.org/ct Las Cruces Advertising Sales RoadRUNNER Transit Bill Shoemaker, A.H.I. Page 36 118 Church Street, P.O. Box 519 Selbyville, DE 19975 Phone: 302.436.4375 Fax: 302.436.911 Email: [email protected] www.ctaa.org CONTENTS 2 Software™ Integrated Transit Technologies. Used by More than 400 Agencies. Proven. End-to End-Solution. Customer-focused. Fixed Route Mobility Management Traveler Information Services Paratransit 888-840-8791 routematch.com www.ctaa.org CONTENTS 3 From the Editor-in-Chief Transit Across New Mexico Click anywhere on the above image to view Editor-in-Chief Scott Bogren’s video editor’s note. www.ctaa.org CONTENTS 4 NOVUS FOR DEMAND R E S PONSE Demand Response Solutions NOVUS gives you the tools to run your demand response organization efficiently, productively, cost-effectively and securely from any location. From call taking to scheduling to dispatching, NOVUS is easy to use and designed with your needs in mind. NOVUS for Demand Response: • Intuitive, web-based and easy-to-use system • Create the perfect balance between customer service and productivity levels that’s right for • Powerful, yet simplistic automated your operation scheduling tools • Scalable for any size transportation organization • Accurate and meaningful statistics every time • Provides secure access to remote offices, • Coordinated service capabilities provide organizations and employees a tightly integrated end-to-end solution For more info, please visit: www.trapezegroup.com/novus www.ctaa.org CONTENTS 5 Voices from the Community Summer 2012 In this edition of DigitalCT, The CTPodcast page features three important conversations. To subscribe to the CTPodcast, go to http://ctpodcast.blogspot.com/ or search “The CTPodcast” in iTunes. Click on the microphone beside each entry to listen! The CT Podcast 1. Mike Davis, Transit Manager for Atomic City Transit in Los The Community Transportation Podcast is a new information tool from Alamos, New Mexico joins the CTPodcast to discuss the burgeoning the Community Transportation Association of America. Take a listen as five-year old, completely fare-free transit system in the north-central part CTAA Communications Director Scott Bogren discusses some facet of of the state. In a recent community survey, Atomic City Transit found that more than a third of local residents were aware of the system and community and public transportation with experts in the field. The CT that more than a quarter had used it. With strong ridership from local Podcast is a great way to learn about key issues, innovations, breaking students and commuters at Los Alamos National Laboratory, as well as news and fresh approaches. You can access the CT Podcast in two ways: a supportive city council, Davis sees a future where the system builds upon its innovations and continues to thrive. 1. The CT Podcast Blog Page 2. Subscribe to the CT Podcast on iTunes. 2. Coast Transit Authority Executive Director Kevin Coggin pro- vides insight into his agency’s preparations and response to Hurricane Isaac. With the bulk of local evacuations completed, Coggin covers all Here’s who has joined the Podcast this month: that the CTA undertakes as a storm approaches, and Coast Transit’s Americans For Transit’s Andrew Austin role in local hurricane preparation and planning. “Clear communications Just two weeks young, Americans For Transit (A4T) is dedicated to orga- between responders and with the public is really critical,” says Coggin. “We do this often enough and have a good plan and experienced staff.” nizing and mobilizing transit riders. Reconnecting America’s Sasha Forbes Two weeks ago, Reconnecting America released an excellent report, Put- 3. Larry Harman, co-director of the geograhics lab at Bridgewa- ting Transit to Work in Main Street America: How Smaller Cities and Rural ter State University in Bridgewater, Mass., talks about his work with Veterans Transportation and Community Living Initiative (VTCLI) grantees Places are Using Transit. and the positive impact these projects are having on both the transit and Treasure Valley Transit’s Terri Lindenberg the veterans fields. He’s excited about the commitment of the grant- CTAA’s 2012 Rural Community Transportation System of the Year is Trea- ees, as well as the Federal Transit Administration, to improving transit services for veterans and how these innovative grants represent “real” sure Valley Transit, an 8-county transit system serving Southwest Idaho projects with a “can-do” approach that he believes will prove successful. Jarrett Walker, Author, Human Transit Jarrett Walker, author of the book, Human Transit, as well as the Human Transit blog. www.ctaa.org CONTENTS 6 Community Development Transportation Lending Services Financing Transportation Facilities & Multimodal Centers The perfect compliment to Digital CT is our bi-weekly E- CDTLS can provide funding in Financing available with negotiable Newsletter, CT Fast Mail. Delivering the latest news on transit A special loan support of transportation facil- terms and low interest rates. fund to develop ity construction or renovation. policy from the nation’s capitol, developments from across the Across the country local transit Eligible Applicants: Private com- transportation services are building facilities panies, non-profit organizations, country, research and analysis publications and information on facilities and and promoting economic devel- and state or local governments resources and technical assistance from the Community Trans- opment through transportation. supporting community transporta- multi-modal Sustainable economic develop- tion and intermodal activities. portation Association and other partners, CT Fast Mail is the centers to improve ment can be dependent on an most direct location for the most relevant news and updates in community intermodal transportation system Criteria: Adequate collateral and that includes rail or bus. Financing a priority of promoting economic the industry. mobility and is meant to facilitate or enhance development in low-income areas. enhance economic community transportation activi- ties and to promote intermodal For further information or a loan And it’s free to sign-up! Simply send an email to fastmail@ctaa. development activities and mobility. application contact: org and you’ll be connected with the next issue of CT Fast CDTLS is dedicated to improv- Dale J. Marsico, CCTM PLANNING & Mail. In the meantime, view the latest edition at www.ctaa.org. ing mobility opportunities and 1341 G Street, NW, 10th Floor TECHNICAL enhancing economic development Washington, DC 20005 ASSISTANCE through community transportation. Tel: 202.415.9682 Fax: 202.737.9197 AVAILABLE Why use CDTLS? E-mail: [email protected] • Flexible financing options Web: www.ctaa.org • Negotiable interest rates • Key partnerships EQUAL OPPORTUNITY LENDER TRANSPORTATION FACILITIES & MULTI-MODAL CENTERS & MULTI-MODAL FACILITIES TRANSPORTATION www.ctaa.org CONTENTS 7 New Mexico DOT Summer 2012 The New Mexico DOT Rises to the Challenge of Multi-Modal Transit Across the Land of Enchantment By Scott Bogren Seven years ago, David Harris arrived at the New Mexico Department of Transporta- tion in Santa Fe as the new Transit Manager in the Transit and Rail Division. He arrived in New Mexico’s state capital fresh out of a stint with the New York City DOT in Man- hattan — a fact confirmed by the large, framed black and white photo of New York City that graces the wall facing his desk. Arriving, in part, due to his wife’s work as a curator at Santa Fe’s renowned Museum of International Folk Art, Harris quickly came to understand that he’d left the boroughs of New York City behind. “When I arrived, I quickly realized that New Mexico is the fifth largest state by land area, but there’s only two million residents,” says Harris. “There’s more people living in that picture behind you [the one of the Man- hattan area] then in this entire state, which Santa Fe’s unique state capitol building. makes providing public transit in this very and Rail Division’s Director, Frank Sharpless Consider that since 2007, rural transit rural environment a real challenge. I quickly — who is also a transplanted easterner, ridership in the state has increased by more learned that what I viewed as a challenge from Pittsburgh — have embraced as transit than 120 percent; that the state helped was really an opportunity to bring public ridership, operators and service types have launch the popular Rail Runner Express transit to as many places as possible.” expanded considerably across the Land of commuter rail service in 2006 (see page 21); Enchantment in the past decade. and that since 2008 four new regional transit It’s a challenge that Harris and the Transit districts have been formed and certified by www.ctaa.org CONTENTS 8 New Mexico DOT The transit offices are instantly recognizable for the transit posters on the hallway walls. CT Magazine staff visited the New Mexico DOT on the morning of a subgrantee meet- ing, where Harris and his staff discussed upcoming grant opportunities and shared plans for FY 2013. A crowded room of transit managers from around the state had gathered, and the vital partnership that Har- ris and his colleagues have nurtured between the DOT and local operators was abundantly clear.
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