[Neighbors] Another crash at Coal/Richmond

[dave mccoy via Neighbors_nobhill-nm]

This is what happens when City Council thinks that Albuquerque should be a
major metropolis.  ABQ is on the way to being intolerable thanks to poor
land use planning and not listening to citizens.

On Sat, Jun 24, 2017 at 5:48 PM, Robert L Anderson via Neighbors_nobhill-nm
<neighbors_nobhill-nm at mailman.swcp.com> wrote:

> 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> wrote:
>
>> <IMG_6609.jpeg><IMG_6607.jpeg><IMG_6613.jpeg>
>> 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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