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Dear

This letter is written on behalf of the 87 homeowners of Bosque Meadows Pl, NW

Albuquerque and sent to 7 other state and city contacts as listed below.
Holding as self-evident the right of taxpaying residents to have safe egress and
exit onto the only highway available (Coors Blvd), we are requesting immediate
attention to the safety and security of our community for these reasons,
developed in more detail below:
1. increased traffic on Coors Blvd
2. Increased speed of that traffic, posted 45 mph, normal 60 mph
3. only development along Coors NW w/o a dedicated entrance/exit
4. Sat afternoons and Sun from 8 am to 1:30 pm the exit and entrance onto
Bosque Meadows across median is almost impossible due to ongoing, police
directed traffic coming from SageBrush church.
5. Said median is NARROW (cars width) and with NO acceleration lane
entering Coors south.
6. posted NO UTurn sign is consistently ignored by trucks, autos and even
police cars causing frequent near collisions with cars legally entering the short
median to exit or enter Bosque Meadows.
7. the only entrance for the OpenSpace Visitors Center, which hosts one of the
natural treasures of Albuquerque overseeing the parts of the Bosque, a system of
trails, and hosting trainings and public presentations.
8. intended construction of cinema, restaurant and bar at La Orilla & Coors

Solution: we are suggesting that NMDOT create an acceleration lane from

center median onto Coors Blvd south, and that this median be illuminated
at night.

History:
We have been concerned w/ this issue for more than two years.
Many attempts to contact Sagebrush CC in all stages of construction on Coors
Blvd with no response to phone calls or emails. Finally a neighborhood meeting
with MDOT in July 2014 requesting traffic light as promised by developers.
NMDOT reiterated NO traffic light possible, too close between LaOrilla and Eagle
Ranch. This decision even tho original developers had assured early residents
that, as they had given City a percentage of $ for every home sold as payment
for such light, and infra structure was installed, the light would eventually be in
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operation, etc, etc. Major concerns expressed about inadequacy of median and
traffic flow.

All of the concerns listed above have increased in the last 16 months. We have
a community of 87 homes; it is a cul de sac neighborhood with no exit other than
the entrance itself; there is a full spread of ages driving in and out of the
neighborhood. NO ONE feels safe and secure navigating that crossing; everyone
speaks of the casualties waiting to happen, the inevitability.

1. Even the city has been aware of the increase in use on Coors Blvd, with
various plans proposed to widen and add a public transport lane to ease traffic
flow. Any of the plans proposed would have made our access to and from Coors
even more hazardous.

2. Traffic speed is a major issue, esp maneuvering within the current narrow
and short median opening; Speed is posted at 45 mph, normal is 55+, and not
unusual to see an auto or motorcyle passing at 70mph.

3. There is no other development in this section of Coors w/o a light: on the

east side of Coors, La Orilla serves businesses and two churches, and Eagle
Ranch serves a multiple use; - we are the only community w/o guaranteed
access; on the West side of Coors, between these two lights, there are no other
communities.

4. Sagebrush Church service traffic (two services on Sat afternoon and 3 on

Sunday) is controlled by off duty police in uniform in police cars directing traffic,
and manually controlling the La Orilla lights in order to permit entrance and exit of
traffic. A major exit from Sagebrush is via Robinson Lane onto right lane of
Coors heading north, thereby prohibiting Bosque Meadows residents as well as
visitors and volunteers for Open Space coming north to move into the right lane
in order to turn into the Bosque Meadows. HAZARDOUS

**5. MEDIAN: for cars coming from the north, there is a 3-car length turn out
before crossing the median. For cars exiting from Bosque Meadows and turning
south, there is NO acceleration lane - trucks and vans cannot pull entirely onto
median so are dangerously exposed to N bound traffic; single cars do not have
clear view of rushing traffic heading south on that left lane, so pulling out is
dangerous, esp at the current speed of oncoming traffic. Only one car can make
that exit at a time; if a car enters from the north, all view of oncoming traffic is
blocked. This is a disaster waiting to happen!!
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6. Whats the sense of a NO U Turn sign?! In general its awkward; given the
problems described, and is consistently ignored by trucks, autos and even police
cars causing frequent near collisions with cars legally entering the short median
to turn. its disastrous.

7. Major weekend events at the Open Space Visitors Center bring in as many as
1000 people per day!! This is wonderful for the City; disastrous for traffic safety
crossing that dreadfully insufficient median. OpenSpace system is unique in the
United States! Longest Bosque w/in a city, designated a national Flyway area,
guardians of thousands of acres of trails and woodlands patrolled by and
maintained by volunteers. And yet NMDOT does nothing to protect highway
access to this significant treasure.

8. Cineplex, restaurant and bar to be constructed at Coors Blvd & La Orilla - this
was approved?!

Solution: we are requesting that NMDOT approve and create an

acceleration lane from the center median onto Coors Blvd south, and that
this median be illuminated at night. Both should be fairly simple to accomplish
as turn lanes have been created for Sagebrush, and at the time of development
of Bosque Meadows, the electric infrastructure was laid near or under the
median.

ABQ has been rated as tied for the 2nd worse driver city in the USA! We are not
imagining the dangers! Not just from increased traffic, increased speed,
outrageous church/police control of highway, but from aggressive and dangerous
driving in general.

PLEASE PAY ATTENTION to this request and to the 105 signatures attached
before this disaster waiting to happen hits the press. I will be your point of
communication until such time as a meeting may be organized with a community
committee.

Attached: 6 pages of petition signatures

Sincerely,

Barbara Eberhardt, NOAC Captain Bosque Meadows Pl

6524 Bosque Meadows Pl, ABQ 87120
505-312-8382
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email letter sent to: Senator John C. Ryan, Representative Sarah Maestes
Barnes,
Councilor Ken Sanchez, Councilor Dan Lewis,
NW area APD: Lieutenant T. Espinosa, Sergeant Grossetete
NMDOT Traffic Engineer, Antonio Jaramillo,
CABQ Planning Dept, Carol Toffaletti,

(subsequent interested parties to be contacted: Governor Martinez, Mayor Berry,

local news stations, ABQ Journal, ABQ FreePress)
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Senator John C. Ryan, john.ryan@nmlegis.gov

Representative Sarah Maestes Barnes, sarah.maestasbarnes@nmlegis.gov
Councilor Ken Sanchez
Councilor Dan Lewis
NW area Substation: Lieutenant T. Espinosa tespinosa@cabq.gov, Sergeant Grossetete
mgrossetete@cabq.gov
NMDOT Traffic Engineer, Antonio Jaramillo, antonio.Jaramillo@state.nm.us
CABQ Planning Dept, Carol Toffaletti, cgtoffaleti@cabq.gov.