BikeABQ Candidate Survey
Miguel Garcia
House District 14
1. Do you bike in New Mexico? Describe your experience biking for transportation and/or recreation.
Yes!
2. Describe your vision of a healthy, safe, equitable transportation system for the Greater Albuquerque Region and the roles walking, biking, and public transportation play in that vision.
Provide for more visible bike paths on our roadways, and maintain existing walking trails.
3. What are the biggest barriers to getting people to choose walking, biking, and public transit instead of personal vehicles for daily trips, and what would you do to address these impediments?
Lack of tax incentives and tax breaks for employers to encourage such alternatives in their work force.
4. New Mexico consistently has the deadliest streets of any state in the US, with approximately 400 people killed by vehicles each year while walking, biking, or driving, and another 12,000 people injured. What should New Mexico, and in particular the New Mexico Department of Transportation, do to improve traffic safety?
Many streets in the Valley lack adequate paving infrastructure and sidewalk and curbing where appropriate. Provide greater funding for road improvements with storm drains and sidewalk and curbing where appropriate.
5. The New Mexico DOT is currently pursuing a pair of projects related to Interstate 25, following the South I-25 Corridor Study that calls for the widening of Interstate 25 in Albuquerque from Sunport to the Big I, to 8 lanes from the current 6. Do you support urban freeway widenings, or how would you prefer NMDOT enhance transportation options in this corridor?
The priority is not adding lanes, but straightening the “S-Curve” in the South Broadway portion of I-25. Any addition of lanes should not encroach on or condemn existing homes in the South Broadway community. Any improvements to this stretch of I-25 should prioritize ‘sound barrier walls” from Coal Ave SE to Gibson Ave SE. The South Broadway community is the only residential community abutting the I-40/I-25 Interstate network without “sound barrier walls”.