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Alvarado Transportation Center - Beautifully Built #yelpjax

Alvarado Transportation Center

2.3(10 reviews)
0.0 miDowntown

While dining at the Frontier, a friend urged me to sign a petition against Area Rapid Transit. 69%…read moreof residents polled won't use ART(http://nmpoliticalreport.com/tag/albuquerque-rapid-transit/). I don't blame them. Many of my brushes with death or getting my ass kicked in ABQ have occurred on a bus or near a bus stop. Chicken buses in the Guatemalan Highlands are safer. (https://www.worldnomads.com/explore/central-america/guatemala/chicken-buses-and-guatemala-transport) A mouthwash drunk on the Route 66 Central bus once shoved a half-eaten piece of cold pepperoni pizza in my face. When I declined it, he offered it to three other passengers. A female voice from the back of the bus screamed, "You need to get off the bus right now because I'm about to put you in the hospital. We're already right in front of Presbyterian; they can come scrape you off the street!" Wasn't sure she was talking to me but the scene was stressful, so I pulled the cable to request the next stop. A voice yelled "Whore! He's a fucking faggot. Don't worry, he's not interested in you!" Saw the pizza guy's mugshot on the news a couple weeks later in regards to a fatal stabbing at a Central Avenue and Wyoming bus stop. Ladies on the bus can pretend to be on the Bachelorette; speed-dating dudes freshly released from BCDC. A guy sat next to me on an empty bus and told me about his dream to become a journalist and how he used to be a reporter with the navy. I said cool! good luck! and then he asked for my number. I told him that I'm married, and then he told me that he took an AIDS test earlier that day. He said his ex-girlfriend of seven years was cheating on him and then asked for my number again. We approached my stop and I learned it was also his. He said, "Well this is it." Luckily, it was raining. I felt less awkward running the other direction. Once, I saw a boy of about ten drinking Arizona Iced Tea sitting in the oscillating section of the Rapid Ride while his father sat on an adjacent horizontal row. The man's arm was in a sling and he was covered with various scars, fresh bruises and abrasions. His son became increasingly animated and started surfing the center lane.The bus stopped abruptly; the kid yelled "WHOAAAA." When he almost fell, everyone was staring. The father yelled"SIT DOWN!" "Goddammit dad, this fucking sucks" the kid said and changed the subject to Cliff's Amusement park. "Dad, will you take me there when you get paid or when you get some money?" The father stood up, clutched the pole with his good arm and when the bus made another sudden stop, he took a hard tumble into the center aisle. The boy screamed. "Help! Stop! My dad's hurt!" It's true, $57 million dollars in federal funds might be put to better use than A.R.T. People might be more inclined to use existing public transportation if taxes were used to help people with mental illness and drug problems get off the street (and the bus). During peak hours, there is a smattering of UNM students and commuters. Unaccompanied small children use the bus to get to school. Maybe applying fed gov't $$$ towards education might help people embrace public transport. Almost half of New Mexicans are functionally illiterate! ( See http://www.literacylinkleamos.org/docs/New%20Mexico%20Literacy%20Stats.pdf) After we house the homeless, and more people learn to read maybe they will reconsider their relationship with their cars and give public transportation a chance. They could learn that in New Mexico driving/riding in a car is people's most deadly daily activity. (See https://www.abqjournal.com/682511/new-mexico-drivers-secondworst-in-us.html) Maybe they'd even become interested in Jeff Speck's walkable city theory. (See https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/11/15/walkable-city-jeff-speck). If people enjoyed walking to bus stops where they weren't afraid of being stabbed, Albuquerque might be a richer city! (see https://www.fastcompany.com/3062989/50-reasons-why-everyone-should-want-more-walkable-streets and http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/20/walkable-cities_n_5507956.html) Wanna know more about city transit? Michael Jerome Wolff/Miguel Villalobos did an extensive cultural study of the experience on his blog https://albuquerquebusstops.com/. Shit's wild.

I love the building here. It is a flash back to the original building that sat on this location in…read morethe past. It is a very busy place at time and people should be aware of their surroundings when they are here. It is a great hub for Greyhound, Amtrak, and city transit.

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Alvarado Transportation Center - 8/19/18:  Yelpers its "World Photography Day is a global event that's aspiring to create positive change in the world through photography."

8/19/18: Yelpers its "World Photography Day is a global event that's aspiring to create positive change in the world through photography."

Alvarado Transportation Center - 8/19/18:  Yelpers its "World Photography Day is a global event that's aspiring to create positive change in the world through photography."

8/19/18: Yelpers its "World Photography Day is a global event that's aspiring to create positive change in the world through photography."

Alvarado Transportation Center - 8/19/18:   Yelpers...get out and snap some photos today! Here is another reason to get out and YELP your local area! World Photography Day

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8/19/18: Yelpers...get out and snap some photos today! Here is another reason to get out and YELP your local area! World Photography Day

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