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WHAT’S WITH SUNPORT’S UNUSABLE LANES AND SIGNALS? Doug Stack of Belen emails, “I am wondering why the Sunport Road now has new lanes that can’t be used and the flashing traffic lights? Why was this money spent? Will the traffic lights function even? Why was the turnaround put in and blocked off at the end of Sunport?”
Because work on the project is in its very early stages.
Amor Solano of Bernalillo County’s Operations and Maintenance Department says, “We are in the process of building an off-ramp to connect to Broadway.”
And engineering manager Rodrigo L. Eichwald goes further, explaining “it was done as the first phase of the Sunport Boulevard Extension Project. Those are the improvements that are needed for when Sunport is extended down to Broadway. The project should be let out for bids in the next month, and construction should follow a couple of months after that.”