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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by trainfinder22 I met with a County commisioner for Montgomery county NY last week about a proposal to reactivtate a rail spur to a new Wall Mart Warehouse that sees about 500 trucks a day.....His objection was "IF we build a rail spur what will happen to all the gas tax and sales tax revenue that we collect at our local truck stop here?" This is a good question...Same for commuter rail what will happen to all those people who take the train to work and not be buying gasoline and paying local taxes? Seems that we are hopelessy addicted to oil.. and it may be too late to get into rehab.[}:)] [/quote] The County Commissioner is an idiot. Anyone versed in transportation knows that the vast majority of goods distributed by Wal Mart are not likely to move by rail to a local siding. Some may move by intermodal container to an intermodal terminal. Others that are heavy bulk items such as fertilizer, rock salt or similar might move by rail to such a siding. But, the vast majority will remain in trucks and thus the effect on fuel sales and sales tax collections will be non-existent. LC
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