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The PUBLIC is
ALWAYS WELCOME!
TRANSPORATION POLICY BOARD
Thursday, Jan. 30th - 4:00 PM
Market station Offices
SFMPO TECHNICAL COORDINATING
COMMITTEE
Monday, Jan. 27th—1:30 PM
Market Station Offices
NORTH CENTRAL REGIONAL TRANSIT
DISTRICT BOARD MEETING
Friday, Jan. 10th—9:00AM
Jim West Regional Transit Center
1327N. Riverside Dr. Espanola
SANTA FE RIVER TRAIL CROSSING
ST. FRANCIS & WEST ALAMEDA
Thursday, Jan. 16, - 5:00PM
Gonzalez Community School Library
851 West Alameda
STATE TRANSPORTATION
COMMISSION
Thursday, Jan. 23rd -12: 30 PM
NMDOT General Office
1120 Cerrillos Rd
Check the website for all meeting
updates!
S A N T A F E M E T R O P O L I T A N P L A N N I N G O R G A N I Z A T I O N
Volume 1, Issue 1
January 1, 2014
Representing you…
City of Santa Fe
Santa Fe County
Pueblo of Tesuque
NMDOT
Vamanos Santa Fe! “Collectively promoting interconnected transportation options.”
www.santafempo.org
WHY WALK?
Why walk when you can drive, you ask? The Santa Fe MPO and its member agen-
cies believe that improvements to the community’s “walkability” or the ability to
experience a safe, friendly, accessible and dependable stroll has at its foundation,
quantifiable economic, health and social benefits. These benefits translate into a
higher quality of life for you and your family. But don’t take our word for it, with
over 800 pedestrian surveys and eight regional public meetings we have heard
loud and clear that pedestrian access in and around Santa Fe is a distinct cultural
asset to be both honored and invested in. The good folks at Design Office and their
partners are finalizing the details of the study by mapping your comments and de-
tailing a sidewalk inventory. Look for announcements about the final product at
www.santafempo.org! Contact Mark Tibbetts : [email protected]
Walkable and Livable
Communities Institute:
Destination Santa Fe
Not to put a finer point on it, but
several of the leading experts in
pedestrian design will be in San-
ta Fe, May 14-16th to comple-
ment the Pedestrian
Master Plan efforts.
This includes Mr.
Dan Burden the na-
tional “walkability
guru”. Check out
one of his talks at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=7bH7DyXp24k
“My vicinity affords many good walks; and
though for so many years I have walked almost
every day, and sometimes for several days to-
gether, I have not yet exhausted them. An abso-
lutely new prospect is a great happiness, and I
can still get this any afternoon. Two or three
hours' walking will carry me to as strange a coun-
try as I expect ever to see. A single farmhouse
which I had not seen before is sometimes as good
as the dominions of the King of
Dahomey.”
Photo: Fred Blocher
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10th
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16th
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30th
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23th
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27th
Walking Henry David Thoreau— From an Essay June 1862
The Atlantic
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Santa Fe Trails recently
added a powerful and user
friendly tool to their web-
site. Riders may track bus
location by route in real
time. This gives riders the
added advantage of seeing
where they are in relation
to their desired stops and
the bus. Santa Fe Trails
utilizes RouteMatch Soft-
ware in an effort to in-
crease service reliability.
Once you have reached the
Routematch website you
may click on the bus icon
which relates the Bus # the
direction it is headed,
speed of the bus and time
of each update. Click on
your desired bus stop icon
and departure times are
displayed.
The use of global position-
ing services and mobile phone
applications are making transit
ride-ability more and more
convenient.
Go to:
www.santafenm.gov/transit
and click on “Where’s My Bus?
under Route Match. The
screenshot below gives you a
sampling of what to expect.
Where’s My Bus?
www.santafempo.org
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The Federal Highway Administration and
the NMDOT are in the final public input
stages for the design of the interchange.
www.santafempo.org
Diverging-Diamond
Interchange Design Comes to Santa Fe!
NMDOT I-25/CERRILLOS
ROAD INTERCHANGE
PUBLIC INPUT DEADLINE:
JANUARY 16, 2014
Example: From Missouri DOT St. Louis
District www.modot.org
Cerrillos Road:
http://tinyurl.com/ljy42qb
Click link below to watch simu-
lation video!
I-25
Click link below to view public
presentation!
http://tinyurl.com/othqeas
The recommended Diverging Diamond Interchange has an estimated cost of $16,172,000. This cost in-cludes the replacement of the I-25 bridges over NM 14 and construction of a multi-use/equestrian trail. By implementing a Diverging Diamond and new I-25 bridges, this interchange will have the capacity and infrastructure to last beyond the planning peri-od for this project. These proposed improvements will greatly improve the safety, capacity, weaving problems, and structural deficiencies associated with the current interchange.
More Information:
http://www.dot.state.nm.us/en/
ProjectsD5.html#I-25_NM14
David Quintana, NMDOT Technical Support Engi-
neer at 505.995.7785, [email protected], or
Kevin Eades with Molzen-Corbin at 505.242.5700,
[email protected] Written comments can
be, e-mailed, or mailed to Parametrix,
[email protected], 8801 Jeffereson NE
Bldg. B., Albuquerque. Comments will be accepted
until January 16, 2014.
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SFMP0—500 Market St.
P.O. Box 909
Santa Fe, NM 87504-0909
www.santafempo.org 505.955.6625
Mark Tibbetts– [email protected]
Keith Wilson— [email protected]
Erick Aune—[email protected]
www.santafempo.org
Santa Fe was designated a Metropolitan Planning Or-
ganization (MPO) in 1982 by the federal government
when the population of the metropolitan area
reached 50,000. The Santa Fe 2010 Census Urban-
ized Area Population was 89,284. The MPO Planning
Area covers approximately 25% of Santa Fe County’s
land area and includes 80% of its population
(Planning Area Population = 116,386, Santa Fe Coun-
ty Population = 144,170) and 90% of its employment.
The purpose of the MPO is to create a forum for
transportation decision making in the metropolitan
planning area. The Santa Fe MPO is responsible for:
Facilitating cooperation, consistency, and con-nectivity between all transportation planning ef-
forts within the Santa Fe metropolitan area
Promoting a multi-modal, regional transportation system that is safe and energy/fiscally efficient
Maximizing community connectivity
Serving the mobility needs of all citizens
Existing in harmony with the environment
For more information on the Santa Fe MPO see the
following presentation: MPO 101 Presentation
Happy
New
Year!
About the Santa Fe MPO
The SFMPO Planning Area Boundary
MPO Planning Area Map [1.4MB in Size]
2014 Plans, Projects and Events
1. Pedestrian Master Plan
2. Regional Transit/Rail Plan
3. 2015 Metropolitan Transportation Plan Up-Date
4. May 2014 Bike to Work Challenge - Bike-to-Work Week Event
5. 2015 NMDOT State Long-Range Transportation Plan Up-Date
6. North Central Regional Transit District—5 Year Service Plan Up-Date
7. NM 599 & Jaguar Drive Interchange
8. I-25 and NM 14 (Cerrillos Rd) Interchange Design
9. I-25 and Canoncito Interchange Reconstruction
10. Northeast/Southeast Connector Location Study (Community College Dist.)
Santa Fe MPO Policy Board: Governor Mitchell - Tesuque Pueblo
Deputy Secretary Kathy Kretz Bender – NMDOT
Councilor Patti Bushee - City of Santa Fe
Mayor David Coss - City of Santa Fe
Councilor Ronald Trujillo - City of Santa Fe
Commissioner Robert Anaya - Santa Fe County
Commissioner Liz Stefanics - Santa Fe County
Commissioner Miguel Chavez – Santa Fe County
Where are we
going in 2014?
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