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Yahoo
3 days ago
- General
- Yahoo
ABQ Ride hosts annual Adopt-A-Stop bus stop clean up
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – On Saturday, dozens of volunteers came out to support the 4th annual Adopt-a-Stop community bus stop clean-up, hosted by ABQ Ride. The yearly clean-up is still in its beginning years, but has already been making a big impact across the city. From 9 a.m. until noon, volunteers headed out in their yellow vests, with trash grabbers and white pick-up buckets, to do good, one bus stop at a time. City leasing spaces for social services at Albuquerque's Gateway Center They had some help, of course, as the city's Sun Vans helped take volunteers along their clean-up route, from Girard Blvd. up to Wyoming Blvd. The clean-up serves another purpose as well, as June is Pride month, and city officials want that corridor to shine. 'So this clean up is once a year, every summer leading into the Albuquerque Pride parade to make sure that whole corridor sparkles for the event so people focus on the floats and not on the trash,' said Madeline Skrak, Public Information Officer, ABQ Ride. The city encourages adopting any of the 2,700 bus stops across the city. The effort to keep the bus stops clean goes beyond June, and officials say is a year-round job. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
27-03-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
More than 7.3 million rides taken on Albuquerque city transit services in 2024
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Ridership on Albuquerque's transit services continues to grow. ABQ Ride said there were more than 7.3 million rides last year on buses, Sun Vans, and through its new rideshare program ABQ Ride Connect. That's 390,000 more than 2023 and 1.1 million more than 2022. Hazmat crew cleans up diesel fuel spill in southwest Albuquerque Ridership has not fully returned to pre-COVID-19 pandemic levels, but ABQ Ride said the Zero Fair program that began three years ago has helped the numbers rebound. 'It shows we are still in demand, right? It shows there is still a need out there in the public, and we are just super excited to see ridership return the way it has,' said Deputy Director Bobby Sisners, ABQ Ride. ABQ Ride said that on average, they have 28 people boarding buses for every hour of service. That's slightly less than Tucson, Arizona, but more than El Paso and Oklahoma City. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
05-02-2025
- General
- Yahoo
ABQ Ride celebrates Transit Equity Day
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – In honor of Transit Equity Day, ABQ Ride hit the streets in their antique bus. Transit Equity Day honors the life and legacy of civil rights activist Rosa Parks who refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Alabama in 1955. The bus made stops at Central New Mexico Community College's main campus, Lew Wallace Elementary School, and the University of New Mexico. Albuquerque Animal Welfare offering free animal caregiver training It also brings the community together to highlight public transportation as a cornerstone of equity. 'It's very important to remember the past, to remember the different individuals who are trailblazers and who have paved the way for a lot of people of color to continue on their legacy and to continue to change the world,' said UNM student Alexandria Leverett. Last year, ABQ Ride served about 6.7 million riders. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
