[Neighbors] Another crash at Coal/Richmond

[Robert L Anderson via Neighbors_nobhill-nm]

The elderly ladies in the right lane were from Rio Rancho and one had picked up the other at the air port.  She admitted she had vision problems, especially in a blind spot of the car.  They wanted to go to a eating place on Central but were trying to figure out how to circle around to get past the barriers, ah turn on Richmond.  The woman in the left lane was saying she would not have been on Coal if ART had not blocked off Central.  Richmond is one of the few places to get across Central and we see that in the heavy traffic here - more accidents coming I assume.  Richmond in the future ART will be one of the few places to cross Central it seems in this area.


Sincerely,
Bob Anderson
Albuquerque, NM
citizen at comcast.net




On Jun 24, 2017, at 3:15 PM, Alex Stevenson <aleksandr.w at gmail.com> wrote:

Mmmmm, I don't know, I'm not sure it's fair to blame left turns from the right lane on ART...

On Sat, Jun 24, 2017 at 2:31 PM, Robert L Anderson via Neighbors_nobhill-nm <neighbors_nobhill-nm at mailman.swcp.com <mailto:neighbors_nobhill-nm at mailman.swcp.com>> wrote:
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Two elderly women in the right lane got confused with not being able to turn left at Girard toward Central due to construction and tried to turn at Richmond and hit the woman in a car passing them in the left lane.  Both cars were so badly damaged (both with front wheel drive axels broken) they could not move.   I heard it and came out to direct traffic around the crash site.  I had several drivers cut around me and wiggle through the crash site and one man got out and tried to start a fist fight.  Cutting through this site like that is dangerous and likely to cause more accidents or hit one of the vehicle passengers.  It took a long time for APD to respond because no one was injured seriously but the vehicles were disabled blocking Coal which was causing a larger problem as drivers screamed intolerantly for us to move the vehicles, open the road.   One huge tow truck with a crashed car on the back zig-zagged right through almost hitting folks again.  I am lucky this time the as car on the left did not come through my yard wall and get near the house, which has happened several times in the past.  I just rebuilt the wall this spring from another crash like this one.  This roadway is dangerous, over loaded and complicated by ART.  But our city planners, the council and mayor think we are in a great leap forward.  Zuni to downtown at 5th are atrocious for moving people around the city safely.  Glad I am not a bicyclist in this new planning craziness.  Add to this all the outright drag racing and loud show off driving on Coal and one can see why business leaving downtown (see Journal this morning) are not going to relocate to the Nob Hill area… Our city is changing rapidly from a once nice place to live into one with no solutions in sight for collective structural improvement (most of the politicians are giving up too and getting out or moving on to other offices it seems).

Bob

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