As part of the update to the Metropolitan Transportation Plan, the MPO is asking for your input to help draft a vision and goals to guide future development of the notorious Cerrillos Road Corridor. This initiative focuses on the following questions: “What does the corridor mean to you today and for what purposes do you use it? What do you envision for the next 25 years, 50 years, and even 100 years for the corridor?”.

You can take the survey now, and additional activities will include community events and resident interviews over the next 3-4 months.

What may sound like a standard bureaucratic process is actually a groundbreaking first of its kind in Santa Fe! Transportation Impact Analysis (TIA) Guidelines are used to determine if and how the transportation network should be modified when a new development occurs.

Prior to the adoption of these guidelines, developers used State highway guidelines on all local roads to make decisions such as when roads should be widened with right or left turn lanes. The new guidelines were written for the context of slower and safer local streets and require developers to include bicycle and pedestrian level of stress in their analysis. This is a huge step forward in making our streets safer for everyone!

On our Crash Data page, you can use the UNM Earth Data Analysis Center's interactive crash map to explore crash locations and hot spots in Santa Fe and the entire state. We also included the Highway Safety Improvement Program's Vulnerable User Dashboard to make bicycle and pedestrian crash data more accessible.

New Mexico lost a pillar in the bicycle community on Sunday, January 19th, when Chuck Malagodi was killed by a vehicle while biking in Albuquerque.

Chuck worked for decades educating kids on bicycle and pedestrian safety for the City of Albuquerque and helped get the Esperanza Bicycle Safety Education Center started. More recently, he helped establish the Santa Fe Safe Routes to School safety education program and spent hours volunteering with the Free Bikes 4 Kids program. Read more from Elena Kayak here.

People should not be killed while using our streets; these deaths are preventable. The MPO continues in our resolve to work for safer streets for all road users.