How many more studies you want to pay for for a service that won't actually get built?

It’s illegal to live off the grid. I would if I could without the threat of imprisonment 🤷🏼‍♀️

It’s going to be very dependent on how the weather has been and when the snow melted. It’s usually wet and muddy though. Alternatively, if it’s muddy, water features are usually more impressive so hiking in the mud is often worth it, depending on the trail.

Well keep it in Boston. That way you can be a good little lemming.

Brightline in Florida completed rail there with all private funding. No reason it can't happen here. They got up and running in 4 years. Compared to Californias state funded rail its quite different.

The scale of the projects isn't the same but the outcomes sort of speak for themselves:

• in florida you have the brightline rail. privately funded started construction 2014 and opened in 2018

• in california you have the states CHSR plan, construction started 2015 after 6 years of reviews, and isn't slated to complete until 2029 at the earliest.

In addition to the other response by SgtToastie, this STILL doesn't take into consideration the costs of pollution, congestion, or condemning valuable land to uneconomic parking.

Every single person that complains about the cost of the train is a driver that loses their minds at the idea of actually paying for the full cost of their car.

When was the last time the federal gas tax was raised? It's long past due.

We ride sleds or quads. I shoot stuff. Get a fire going and just hangout. I can see how that might be weird for someone from Florida, but for us being out in the cold is normal.

If you want to try analyzing the Federal Highway Trust Fund and show the match between the inlays to NH and the outlays over the various fuel taxes be my guest, you still haven't addressed the nearly $100 million deficit. Kinda weird you ignore that part completely.

Then live off the grid. The roads you use, the electricity you use, the police, fire department...hell, even the food you buy are subsidized by taxpayer money. You can't pick and choose. It sounds like you just want to complain and be hypocritical. This is the system you live in. You are a part of it.

If you’re talking the whites, be prepared for cold/windy/snowy/icy conditions above tree line. The trails will be very muddy and slippery before that elevation.

If you’re talking a nature walk in Southern NH, than it won’t be mud season by mid May, but it will be black fly season which is pretty miserable.

Sorry but money rules the world and there’s no way that’s changing any time soon. No one is entitled to anyone else’s labor or money.

That’s the real issue here. Meanwhile, the geezers are confused why their children are moving away when they can’t afford to buy a house here and professional careers are few and far between.

Didddddd you know gas taxes aren’t just state?

But that only works if you reduce the number of people driving, otherwise you're adding to the traffic problem. Maybe it's just me but I feel like there's a stigma associated with riding a bus that isn't there for taking a train- so for convincing people to take public transport, I think a train will get better adoption than busses. I could very well be wrong, this is just my personal bias- If it was convienient to my workplace, i'd take a train every day. I don't care if the bus is coming to my office door I would drive my own car before taking the bus.

Your source literally says that the roads aren't self funded and rely on at least $144 million in federal subsidies. That's not "paying for itself".

FY2023 report states say Transportation costs are at $680,627,309. Our dedicated intake from highways tolls, car reg, and other miscellaneous funds is $432,055,480. After that federal highway funding that'd leave around $104 million coming out the general tax funds each year. How did you reach the conclusion that it's self funded from that?

Thanks for attacking me over thinking taxes are stupid.

So you’re a child. Got it

I’m imagining probably ten times the bus traffic we have now with regularly spaced schedules that would be workable for daily commuters. Imagining, of course.

If you can't see the benefit of having a commuter rail in a state devoid of public transport, irrespective of its profitability, then I think you must just be biased. I don't care if it makes money. That's not what it's for. The point is to provide a service. It lightens the load on our highways. Drives commerce around its stops. Provides a cheaper alternative to traveling by car.

Not everything has to be profit-driven. Lose that mindset.

Pick up the free papers like The Hippo. There's lots of different activities.

Also, check out the library (-ies?) and the city's recreation website. There's usually different things posted in those places..

Indoor soccer - There are adult leagues in Bedford and Derry. Derry also has basketball leagues, as do many YMCA's.

Why wouldn't you want to connect a railway and have less idiots on the road?

NH actually does better than the average state, to be clear - it's around #13 - about 60% of road costs were covered by those kinds of user fees in FY 2016 Source.

> Where do the funds come from? I’m asking because you seem like the expert in this.

Other "general" tax revenues.

Especially at the federal level. The infrastructure bill that's sending billions in $ to NH, is not coming from the gas tax.

The normal federal share of road infrastructure projects is increasingly not coming from gas taxes. The federal highway trust fund that pays for those is theoretically funded by the gas tax....but the tax hasn't been increased since 1993, things clearly cost more today than 30 years ago, and so Congress transfers billions per year of general revenue (income taxes and the like) to plug the gap.

Going to be real I don’t support any taxes… but the others are already there and I understand that some taxation may be required. I don’t in ANY WAY support “new” taxes without removing taxation from elsewhere though.