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Road Warrior: Can someone enlighten me? Neighbor wonders why streetlight repair is taking so long
Alaina Mencinger, Journal Staff Writer. (Robert Browman.Albuquerque Journal) JOMUG
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DELAYED ILLUMINATION: It’s been five months since residents in the neighborhood off Coors NW, between Delleyne and Sevilla, called the city to fix a broken streetlight.
“What I want to know is will the light be installed or not, and is it on schedule (hopefully sometime soon)?” asks Terry Wilmot, who lives in the area and worries about elderly residents of the neighborhood turning on or off of Coors.
“I can’t believe it takes this long,” Wilmot said in an email to the Journal, adding that he has spent months calling the city’s 311 line and the owners of the streetlight to get it repaired.
While it would be a bright idea to get the light fixed, the light pole is on back order with the city’s supplier, said Department of Municipal Development spokesperson Dan Mayfield.
The pole is nonstandard — a different diameter than other city streetlights. But Mayfield said it is expected to arrive in the next few weeks.
SOUND OFF ON THE S-CURVE: The New Mexico Department of Transportation is pursuing chiropractic treatment to potentially straighten the S-curve stretch of Interstate 25 between Avenida Cesar Chavez and Lomas.
A Wednesday meeting kicked off a public comment period that will last until Dec. 17.
Comments can be emailed to study@i25scurve.com, by calling 505-600-2232, or visiting www.i25scurve.com/public-meeting to fill out a comment form in English or Spanish.
The curve was the site of 1,187 crashes between 2016 and 2021, including two fatal crashes and five pedestrian crashes.
The area is hugged by several historic neighborhoods, including South Broadway and Huning Highland.
