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Has anyone offered  a vision for a $5 billion economic generator lately? Well here’s one for New Mexico that organizes a development consortium to build the world’s most advanced transport system as a 15 mile Metro backbone in Albuquerque. It will also serve as a collector distributor for  commuter rail traffic between Santa Fe, Albuquerque and Belen. Our company,  Smartskyways, is 50% made up of former Disney engineers that built Disney’s and Las Vegas Transport systems. We are an R&D start-up that is building a one mile demonstration model to incubate a 50 city block research center in Ft Collins, Colorado. We have spent 10 years in R&D for an elevated, automated (driverless), robotic transport technology capable of operating profits. Our engineering team has built many systems.  The key is in the financing. Automation could open the door to profits and that brings private sector capital. Our installation costs will be proven with our model and are estimated at $12 to $15 million per mile (1/2 that of Light Rail). We plan to license our Automated Guideway Technology (AGT) to cities, states, resorts, airports, hospitals and universities.  In addition to attracting private funding to build the transit technology opportunity, we are anticipate a $5 billion economic generator effect from real estate development around the station stops. A fraction of this new tax base could be used to purchase the Metro backbone in 25 years thereby giving the investors a “Take Out”. We illustrate such a bold economic model in the pages that follow.

 
This  illustration shows how the financing would work with a $250 million model for  Albuquerque and Santa Fe to build AGT  transit collector and distributor systems at each end of the Commuter Rail. We believe this will double or even triple rail ridership making it more successful. This illustration shows how to incubate $4 to $5 billion in real estate development in the 10 largest activity centers (neighborhoods) by building connecting local loops of 2 to 5 miles in each of them. Special Districts and Urban Renewal Districts can fund this. A fraction of the tax base that grows from these 10 neighborhoods could easily purchase the $250 Million route.

Smartskyways Inc will sell a license to a Group in the State  for a $2 million fee to design and package this next generation of transport and economic model that creates a development consortium in partnership with New Mexico. Over the next 2 years, this $2 million will produce a Business Plan and engineering based on the 10 neighborhoods along the route joining into a Development Consortium with the City and New Mexico Dept. of Transportation. The initial goal will be to collectively fund $10 million to build a ¼ mile sales model on one of the sites in the plan and market it. The $2 mil license fee will pay for initial engineering, automation software, legal, and approvals, financing documents and marketing tools. These will include web presence, Telelibrary, CDROMs, TV documentary, flyers, reports, postcards and databases. They will all be available for national distribution. We also want this plan to show a strategy for Beyond Oil that could be applied on a national basis creating a trillion dollar sized jobs program: www.beyondoilusa.com

The State Fair Grounds could play a major role in this package of a 15 mile Metro route in Albuquerque. The $2 million packaging fee will include a 2-mile local loop that connects sites inside the Fair Grounds to the 15-mile Metro route. This will provide the conditions to grow a $2 billion mixed use community on this site. In fact the redevelopment of the State Fair Grounds could probably pay for the entire 15-mile metro route by itself. If new Mexicans have an appetite for such a venture, a more complete proposal is located at www.smartskyways.com/route. Then click on New Mexico. We stand ready to discuss it with you and your people.

Sincerely,
Lloyd Goff
President

Beyond Oil

Of all the problems facing America, the economic shock from $5 per gallon gas is probably worse than drugs, illegal immigration, weather, terrorism, pandemics, education or even the national debt, because it will effect virtually everyone and everything. That is why we are developing a 50 city block research campus in Ft Collins, CO. for alternative energy, transport, water recycling, security and other next generation infrastructures. Within 3 years we can have demonstration models in time to prepare for the economic crisis to come.

Of all the factors that count in the growth of cities, it is the willingness of the population to embrace or resist change that determines its future. We live in a marketplace of ideas that are constantly offered and challenged by those who care. But our lives are about to change by the economic disruption caused by our dependence on oil. The global supply of oil is “peaking” and henceforth may well diminish every year. At the same time demand is out-running supply due to the modernization of China and India. Can business survive $5 per gallon gas? The International Energy Agency has stated, ''The world has never faced a problem like this. The problem will be pervasive and will not be temporary. Oil peaking will be abrupt and revolutionary. It will become a huge disruption to the economy and requires massive mitigation more than a decade before new technologies can have impact”.

Hurricane Katrina was a wake up call and brings to out attention that every city needs to have a plan for the economic shock that will result from Oil Peaking. If we go back to sleep and business proceeds as usual, we may wake up into a new economic condition for which we are not prepared as the price of gas inevitably goes higher. We may see gas pricing, rationing and driving restrictions within the coming decade that cause economic disruption greater than that seen during the 1930’s depression. The experts state that it will happen, although no one knows when. But if we cannot predict when, we can certainly prepare. We at: www.Airpark Village.com have accumulated a library of recent publications describing Oil Peaking and its potentially devastating effects. You can access this information on our web site and determine for yourself what actions need to be taken.

We can begin to prepare for this now by encouraging research and new thinking on transport, alternative energies, new land use patterns and other infrastructure changes to replace our dependence on the oil economy. It will take time and the willingness to experiment to find the right solution. We need to gather the resources and tap the collective thinking of our brightest minds to test new ideas and verify their feasibility.