Here are some more nice aerial pics, including views of Downtown Albuquerque, the Big I and the I-25 Improved project. They were posted this past weekend by the Rainbow Ryders pilot on Facebook.
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In the last two pics above you can see the new braided ramps that are beginning to be constructed. Below is another nice aerial pic showing this element of the project. It was posted on LinkedIn as part of an advertisement for a tour of the project that took place last week.
Here are a few pics with views of the project and braided ramp construction from the ground that were taken during the tour and posted on LinkedIn as well.
KRQE also recently had a story about the project that featured a few nice aerial views. It was recently announced that I-25 will be closed overnight for 5 days next week to demolish the old portion of the Montaño/Montgomery bridge across the freeway.
The state is also asking for ideas and submissions for what to call the new "Texas u-turns" that are being constructed as part of the project. They want to give them a unique New Mexico-inspired name instead.
My idea is to call them "Q-uey" as a play on one of Albuquerque’s nicknames as "The Q" and the sequence of letters in our city's name that appears twice, QUE, which also happens to spell the letter Q. I realize this only really works in Albuquerque itself as opposed to across the state, but there's my idea.
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