Pete Dinielli is right on this.  We should all go to city council Monday night and put this on their agenda again. 

 What I keep hearing from the city is how they consulted with so many people on this before hand.  It is a lie.  I figure they did talk to a few developers and people who want to spend a pile of money.  I have lived here near 40 years now and know hundreds of local community residents, neighbors and friends and none of those folks told me the city had done outreach to them about this project.  In fact if any of us voiced opposition we were deliberately excluded it seems.

 We need more public transit for sure but this project with its stealth component of turning Lead and Coal and Zuni into major interstate highways will destroy the stable long-term neighborhoods on both sides of Central. 

 What we will have is a major exit of what makes up stable middle-class communities.  Speculators like this kind of out migration.  The plan has no consideration at all of the impact on the communities as far as I can tell. The more the public looks at it the more problems we can see with it, trees, crossings, more oil, parking, bankruptcies from more loans to businesses not doing well now... 

 I found the meeting last night helpful and learned a lot from folks who spoke in opposition to this plan.

 This ART is BARF, Shut it Down!  

Bob

On Feb 26, 2016, at 11:11 AM, Thomas Simic via Neighbors_nobhill-nm <neighbors_nobhill-nm@mailman.swcp.com> wrote:

I attended the meeting last night. There were a lot of angry people and rightfully so. After attending the meeting, I am more concerned about the negative affect this project will have on Nob Hill, by eliminating appx. 71 trees, 68 parking spaces and most left turn signals on Central.  There is limited parking for people coming to Nob Hill presently and we are taking away more parking.All of this will affect businesses. There will be an increase of 300 cars during rush hour on Lead & Coal. I live on Carlisle & Coal and witness first hand the speeding,excessive noice from modified mufflers and big boom speakers in vehicles that rattle your house,  accidents and loss of life at this intersection, not to mention the trash that people throw out of their windows. this will only increase this problem.  The new buses will still use fossil fuels. There was mention about looking at an electric bus but no promise of such.  I think we need to find a way to get a moratorium to stop this project and have everyone go back to the drawing board. I am in favor of progress but.....is this progress?? Will the ART plan compete with plans in other states 5-10yrs. from now?? Let's think about the future when making Albuquerque progressive. I am not sure if buses are the answer.  I encourage everyone to take the survey online at Albuquerque Free Press and voice your opinion on this project.   Thank you for hearing me out. Let's do what is right for Nob Hill and the city of Albuquerque.

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