Mr. Chris Blewett This is Me

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1. 1. www.santafenewmexican.com

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   Published on: 8/20/2008   Last Visited: 8/20/2008

   "We've gotten a ton of e-mail about this, and what people are seeing is an unfinished product," said Chris Blewett, a project manager with the Mid-Region Council of Governments, on contract with the state to oversee the train.
   
   "There is a whole bunch of rail out there in the median of Interstate 25 that looks like spaghetti.There's a reason for that: It is not done yet," he said.
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   Next, Blewett said, they put down a series of concrete ties and snap steel rails onto hardware set into the ties.Finally, they scatter another layer of ballast, then tamp down the whole structure and complete a process called "de-stressing."
   
   The difference between finished and unfinished is visible, he said, by looking at the tracks that have been completed just south of a new tunnel near St. Francis Drive and Interstate 25."That section has already been tamped and de-stressed.It's straight as an arrow, and it looks like real railroad," said Blewett.

2. 2. www.evworld.com

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   Published on: 5/12/2008   Last Visited: 5/12/2008

   Interview with Chris Blewett, director of transportation and planning services for New Mexico's Mid-Region Council of Governments.
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   According to Chris Blewett, the director of transportation & planning services for New Mexico's Mid-Region Council of Governments, Rail Runner hopes to attract commuters who live along and at either end of the system and are beginning to find their commute times lengthening as traffic density on I-25 increases, while fuel prices continue to gradually climb.He estimates some 15,000 commuters drive from the south into their jobs in the city, while another 20,000 drive in from the north.
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   Blewett calculates that while each locomotive gets just 1 mile per gallon of B20 diesel fuel, a full train will be getting as much as 600 passenger miles per gallon.
   
   The project has been under consideration in New Mexico for sometime, but once the decision was made to fund it using both state and federal monies in 2003, development has been relatively fast.It took some 18 months of negotiation to acquire the single line of track from BNSF.Blewett explained that the track is in very good condition since it is also used by Amtrak, and is rated at 80 mph (128.9 km/hr).

3. 3. www.eenews.net

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   Published on: 5/1/2008   Last Visited: 5/29/2008

   But Chris Blewett, project manager for Rail Runner, said the prairie dogs will be better off at the new site."The prairie dogs came off of sites that totaled about 2 acres," he said.