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Residents and BPAC raise safety, review-process concerns over Galisteo redesign at Zia Station
Summary
BPAC members, neighborhood representatives and Bike Santa Fe raised safety concerns about the redesign of Galisteo Road at the Zia Station development—narrow travel lanes, a 3-foot raised median and loss of a striped shoulder—that they say endanger bicyclists and pedestrians; BPAC agreed to a field visit and to pursue a committee recommendation to the land use director if warranted.
Members of the Santa Fe Bicycle & Pedestrian Advisory Committee (BPAC) spent a substantial portion of their Jan. 13 meeting discussing safety and procedural questions stemming from the Galisteo Road redesign associated with the Zia Station development.
Resident and Candlelight Neighborhood Association President Aku Oppenheimer told the committee the intersection and roadway configuration “is maximally dangerous” for bicyclists and pedestrians and urged BPAC to have “some kind of voice to register for the record that mistakes are being made.” Oppenheimer said the redesign has eliminated a…
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