ABQ Ride is Albuquerque‘s principal form of public transportation. It boards over 13-million passengers a year and logs a daily average of 160,000 passenger miles on its buses.
The following projects are opening in 2017:Heavy RailBay Area Rapid Transit extension to Warm Springs [http://www.bart.gov/about/projects/wsx#Schedule]Bay Area Rapid Transit extension...
The city of Albuquerque and the Albuquerque Police Department (APD) are launching an awareness campaign to get drivers ready for the new designated ART bus lane in the ART lanes...
Albuquerque Rapid Transit service has begun on the west side to the BioPark for River of Lights. Additionally, ART drivers are training throughout the entire ART service area....
The Albuquerque Rapid Transit team has launched a new app that is ready for download at both the iTunes store and the Google Play Store — search for ABQRide+.
In 2012, when Albuquerque, New Mexico was exploring the idea of operating a Bus Rapid Transit system, its officials visited Cleveland to ride and observe that city’s “HealthLine...
The Albuquerque Rapid Transit (ART) project team will begin heavy construction on October 17th within the construction corridor on Central Avenue from Coors Boulevard to Louisiana...
As part of the pre-construction work on the Albuquerque Rapid Transit (ART) Project, Bradbury Stamm Construction and its subcontractors will be providing pre-construction surveys...
ABQ Ride has launched new features; including if riders are making a connection to another route, they can simultaneously keep track of where the bus is.
ABQ Ride's Northwest Transit Center, located on the northwest corner of Ellison and Coors Bypass reopened Monday, July 25, 2016. That means buses will no longer need to pick up...
The Albuquerque Rapid Transit (ART) project will bring state-of-the-art landscape design and water features to the transit project, with construction scheduled to begin in August...
Bradbury Stamm Construction, the firm selected to oversee the construction of the Albuquerque Rapid Transit (ART) project, announced it will solicit bids primarily from local ...
Since last week’s City Council vote to accept the Federal Transit Administration’s (FTA) Small Starts Capital Grant for the Albuquerque Rapid Transit (ART) project, the design...
The last of five public meetings on Albuquerque Rapid Transit will be Thursday night, March 3 at the Alice K. Hoppes African American Pavilion on the Expo New Mexico grounds at...
ABQ Ride is hosting five public meetings at the end of February and the beginning of March, 2016 to update the public on the latest information concerning Albuquerque Rapid Transit...
Mayor Richard J. Berry announced Albuquerque Rapid Transit’s (ART) plans, now that it has received recommendation of a Federal Transit Administration (FTA) Small Starts Capital...
While in Washington, D.C. Mayor Richard J. Berry received the news that the Albuquerque Rapid Transit (ART) has received recommendation of a Federal Transit Administration (FTA...
After three years of public input, the latest in Albuquerque Rapid Transit station designs and lane alignments are online on the ART website (www.brtabq.com).
Let ABQ Ride get you started in the holiday mood with an hour of caroling at the Alvarado Transportation Center at 1st and Central Dec. 3.The Enchanted Mesa Show Chorus will entertain...
Let ABQ Ride get you started in the holiday mood with an hour of caroling at the Alvarado Transportation Center at 1st and Central at noon on Dec. 3.The Enchanted Mesa Show Chorus...
Starting Dec. 1, ABQ Ride will be testing two, new all-electric buses on two of its routes.On Dec. 1 and Dec. 3, ABQ Ride will deploy a 40-foot, BYD Battery-Electric bus on its...
For years, ABQ Ride and its IT Division have searched for ways to reduce the cost of communicating between its Sun Vans and dispatch. Now, it has paired new equipment with the...
In the lifespan of a city of Albuquerque department, 50 years may not seem like a long time. But for ABQ Ride, its first 50 have provided a lifetime of memories. The department...
ABQ Ride has brand new Sun Vans. And they’re sporting a new look, along with the capability of carrying more customers than ever before."Serving thousands of riders each month...
That New Mexico is considered one of the world’s hotbeds of Flamenco is a testament to the vision, talent and drive of Albuquerque’s Eva Encinias-Sandoval. Because of her work...
ABQ Ride’s public-private partnership with Lamar Transit continues to payoff yet again for Albuquerque taxpayers. After receiving over $200,000 since 2012 over its minimum annual...
ABQ Ride is inviting news media to join them for the Transit in Motion “Talk, Tour & Toasts” along the Central Avenue corridor on Aug. 19. The event will provide insight to the...
People working in Downtown Albuquerque frequently don’t know they’re there; the signs indicating the stops for a free and quick ride in downtown. Now, those signs for ABQ Ride...
It was the decade that gave us CD’s, video games, personal computers and parachute pants; when MTV actually played music videos. The 1980’s were a cultural watershed which helped...
The 1970’s were a time of change, both for our nation’s culture and for ABQ Ride, the city’s transit department. As the system broke ground with expanding ridership and bus service...
Maybe you’ve never had the inclination to get out of the cocoon that is your car. But, if you could keep more money in your wallet or help the environment, or even get a new perspective...
It’s the latest thing in securing wheelchairs rapidly inside buses and public transit. And now, it is being tested inside one of ABQ Ride’s Rapid Ride Buses through fall, 2015...
Those were heady times back in the 1960’s and 70’s, when ABQ Ride entered into its first decade of service. As the Transit Department broke ground with expanding bus service to...
ABQ Ride may be celebrating a golden anniversary in 2015, but the department’s roots actually go back 87 years. That’s when the department’s forerunner, the privately-owned Albuquerque...
ABQ Ride’s Albuquerque Rapid Transit project is designed to run right by the University of New Mexico on Central Avenue. UNM students are a good user group of ABQ Ride’s service...
You can give a child the gift of reading by helping ABQ Ride stuff a bus with books on April 2. From 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Central and Unser Transit Center at the corner of...
Now, ABQ RIDE and Albuquerque Public Schools are honoring middle and high school students whose artwork will now grace a city bus. The winning artwork was presented at a news ...
Selected ABQ Ride bus shelters in Albuquerque once again are becoming showplaces for community artwork. This time, shelters along Wyoming and Gibson Boulevards will showcase the...
Moments have made ABQ Ride what it is today. It is the moments that have transformed a small bus service into one that provides millions of rides every year. And so, in the 50th...
As far as birthdays go, 50 is a major milestone. And so it goes for ABQ Ride, the city of Albuquerque’s Transit Department. On Feb. 1, it celebrates 50 years of serving Albuquerque...
If you are at any bus stop on Central Avenue, you can now use ABQ Ride’s TXT2RIDE to find out when your next two buses are scheduled to arrive. It’s the same service that is available...
A growing number of Veterans using V.A. Healthcare System cards to ride the bus and the increasing number of people downloading ABQ Ride’s smartphone apps is helping boost ABQ...
It’s been three years in the making; an intermodal transit hub in Albuquerque’s North Valley to serve both ABQ Ride and New Mexico Rail Runner Express customers.
Through Feb. 28, show the app at Chocolate Dude Coffee and Candy, 3339 Central Ave. NE, Suite E and get a free, chocolate-covered strawberry with every three strawberries purchased...
Now, Android smartphone users can discover what over 12-thousand iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch users in Albuquerque already know; that the ABQ Ride app provides not only real time...
Perhaps you’ve already discovered the shopping experience that is a Growers Market in Albuquerque; the brightly colored vegetables and fruits, the array of regional and organic...
