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I have been (and am) pro-ART but I really want to see it running and use it before making my judgment. I already like the improvements such as wider sidewalks in the Nob Hill area which make for much nicer (and safer) walking. I'd always felt Nob Hill was very pedestrian-unfriendly, with too narrow sidewalks and too much traffic, but the updates brought on by the ART project have reversed that finally. Much of West Central used to look like some war-torn street in Afghanistan, but the ART project has dressed it up a little.
The trick will be getting drivers to heed the signage and not make left turns where they are not supposed to.
The trick will be getting drivers to heed the signage and not make left turns where they are not supposed to.
That really will be the trick. Unfortunately, the long delay in getting the bus running seems to be encouraging more and more people to treat the bus lanes as de facto left turn bays. It's going to be a task for APD to put that genie back in the bottle. I hope no one is hurt in the meantime.
The ART project has been placed on hold pending an inspection of the city’s electric bus fleet, Mayor Tim Keller announced Thursday morning.
City officials cited brake failures and other equipment malfunctions as reasons for the inspections, which will be conducted by city mechanics over the next month.
What a debacle. I hope the city is seriously considering taking the bus manufacturer - if not members of the previous mayoral administration - to court. How did the city end up taking possession of vehicles with so many obvious problems?
Given what he inherited, I think the mayor made the right call here.
Not a fan of the cheap shots mentioned in the article about the tech not being ready. The tech is perfectly ready, but you shouldn’t be surprised when the lowest bidder builds you a cheap and shoddy implementation of that tech.
Reading BYD’s butthurt response didn’t engender much sympathy.
When I moved here, I was solidly Democratic/Green-ish, but I thought: well, New Mexico is a poor state, and things are tight economically, so it probably doesn't hurt to have a Republican mayor. Sometimes you need to be fiscally conservative at the local level. Etc., etc., etc. So what did we get? A Republican mayor who pushed for this unpopular, expensive boondoggle, and thoroughly mismanaged it. Maybe he wasn't personally involved with a lot of the decision-making, but ultimately the buck has to stop with him. Choosing the wrong people to manage a project is still a type of responsibility.
I think Keller is doing the right thing on ART by being cautious and not letting these buses with dubious brakes and batteries that might overheat, go forward.
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