Ping.
Mayor Berry and ART tore up already narrow Central Avenue in the University and Nob Hill areas to make bus lanes. The shops at Nob Hill protested they would lose business as customers would lose parking and didn’t want to fight auto congestion to visit, and indeed some went out of business.
And who was going to use ART anyway? That question always puzzled me as they already have frequent bus service already down Central Avenue to Tramway and the majority of riders are the panhandlers and homeless that frequent the crime ridden area east of Washington Street. (The area of southeast ABQ south of Central and north of Kirtland Air Force Base was called for years by locals as the “War Zone” due to the violence from assaults, killings and drug crime, much by Spanish speaking illegals. The city has euphemistically renamed it the International Zone.)