05/18/2026
🚨 The City Council is expected to vote on the budget amendment tonight!
It is not too late to let your voice be heard and help stop this attack on road safety in Albuquerque.
🗣️ Sign up for public comment here: https://www.cabq.gov/council/find-your-councilor/public-comments/public-comment-sign-up-may-18-2026-council-meeting.
If you can't make tonight's meeting, you can email your councilors!
Not sure who your councilor is? Find out here: https://www.cabq.gov/council/find-your-councilor
You can send a message to your councilor — or to all councilors — here: https://www.cabq.gov/council/find-your-councilor/contact-all-councilors
Keep your message short, respectful, and personal. Here are a few things you could mention:
• You live in their district
• Why traffic safety matters to you personally
• Concern about redirecting ASE funds away from Vision Zero
• The recent cyclist deaths and crashes showing this issue remains urgent
• Why you believe ASE funding should continue supporting safety improvements instead of going into the General Fund
🚨 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
