05/18/2026
This is extremely urgent. If you have time, please reach out to your City Council representative. If you ride down to Bike In Coffee each weekend, you understand the importance of funding safe infrastructure.
🚨 ACTION NEEDED: Tell City Council to protect Vision Zero funding 🚨
Albuquerque City Council is considering a budget proposal that would redirect funds collected through Automated Speed Enforcement (ASE) — the City’s speed camera program — away from Vision Zero traffic safety projects and into the General Fund. If approved, this proposal would severely undermine Albuquerque’s ability to fund proven street safety improvements meant to prevent traffic deaths and serious injuries.
In the wake of multiple tragic traffic deaths, it is unconscionable that the City budget would sever the primary funding mechanism for local traffic safety. The Automated Speed Enforcement—or speed camera—program not only enforces safe travel speeds on some of the most dangerous roads in Albuquerque, the money collected by these fines are dedicated to Vision Zero projects across the city.
Vision Zero—the goal of achieving zero traffic fatalities—has funded numerous safety improvements, including the enhanced crossings along the Hahn Arroyo meant to protect cyclists and other vulnerable road users.
Less than a year after a driver killed Kayla Vanlandingham at one of these crossings, and barely six months since the passage of the Stop for Everyone ordinance that dedicated ASE funds to Vision Zero, Councilor Grout’s budget proposal aims to redirect those very funds into the General Fund instead.
Councilor Grout’s proposal comes only days after a cyclist was killed by a hit-and-run driver, and we have now learned of yet another person struck while riding a bicycle this morning. These tragedies show that enforcement of dangerous driver behavior continues to be critical. Weakening a successful program like ASE would be a mistake.
🚨 The public will have an opportunity to provide comments on the budget as amended at the regular meeting of the City Council on Monday, May 18, 2026.
Contact your City Councilor TODAY and tell them:
-Keep ASE funds dedicated to Vision Zero.
-Protect funding for traffic safety improvements
-Honor the City’s commitment to preventing traffic deaths
Find your councilor and contact information here:�https://www.cabq.gov/council/find-your-councilor
