Could speed cameras be coming to Tramway? Probably not, and here’s why.
Jul. 15—As a feather-footed driver, I can empathize with the reader who reached out to me about speeding on Tramway.
“Tramway. I’d love to see more police monitoring Tramway … a few speed cameras wouldn’t hurt.”
So why isn’t Tramway a candidate for speed cameras?
First, the road is monitored by the state, not the city of Albuquerque, which administers the Automated Speed Enforcement program. Currently, there are 20 cameras around the city and no plans to increase that number.
But it’s not just about speed. All the current speed camera locations were identified as priority areas on the high fatal and injury network map — areas of the city that are the most dangerous for pedestrians.
According to a crash density map from UNM, the density of crashes on Tramway is lower than several other places in the city.
“There are several locations that are far more dangerous for pedestrians than Tramway,” said Department of Municipal Development spokesperson Dan Mayfield.
WHERE TO REPORT AN OVERGROWN MEDIAN: Carole says that median landscaping blocks the view of traffic going east on Tierra Pintada, making it “almost impossible to make that left hand turn safely,” especially as tree foliage comes in during the spring and summer months.
“Who is responsible for caring/pruning back the median?” she asked. More than 600 median acres are maintained by city Solid Waste workers, sometimes helped out by volunteers through the Adopt-A-Median program. That is the case for the aforementioned medians on Tierra Pintada. The Solid Waste Management Department handles the medians on the street from Calle Azulejo to Unser.
Alex Bukoski, a spokesperson for the department, said the Clean Cities superintendent went to the location Tuesday and scheduled it for maintenance.
Bukoski said it maintains some of the city’s medians, but not all.
“They could fall under DMD and DOT depending on where the medians are located,” Bukoski said. “All medians with installed irrigation systems tend to be SWMD.”
As for the rest of the city’s medians, I asked SWMD where people should go if they had their own median maintenance questions.
Because the maintenance could fall to any of several different departments, Bukoski recommended calling 311 with any issues.
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