Valerie Hermanson

The City of Albuquerque on Tuesday announced it will be doubling the amount of speed cameras in the city this winter. The announcement came at a press conference detailing data from the first two years using 20 speed cameras around the city, which issued more than 220,000 tickets.

A new study ranks New Mexico as the most dangerous state in the nation to be a pedestrian, and the state’s largest city as the second most deadly metro area for those on foot. While Albuquerque’s numbers dipped some during the early pandemic, its rates have nearly doubled over the last decade despite new initiatives to bring them down. The danger is rooted in road design and the burden is not being shouldered equally by residents.