New Mexico’s worst intersections

New Mexico’s ten worst intersections ranked by number of collisions. The first nine of these are in Albuquerque, the last is in Española.

Intersection Total 2004 2003 2002
Coors & Paseo del Norte 430 187 123 120
Montgomery & Wyoming 342 92 130 120
Montgomery & San Mateo 339 99 118 122
Jefferson & Paseo del Norte 321 129 105 87
Coors & Irving 294 104 93 97
Coors Bypass & Ellison 288 95 101 92
Coors Bypass & Seven-Bar Loop 262 82 80 100
Coors & Quail 254 103 80 71
Montgomery & Eubank 227 83 71 73
NM 584 & Riverside Dr. 224 74 71 79

Update: Here are Albuquerque’s 25 busiest intersections, ranked by daily volume in 2004. Those listed above are indicated with #.

  1. #MONTGOMERY/WYOMING 85,264
  2. #MONTGOMERY/SAN MATEO 84,999
  3. MENAUL/SAN MATEO 84,111
  4. #JEFFERSON/PASEO DEL NORTE 83,830
  5. COORS/OURAY 79,420
  6. PAN AMERICAN WEST/PASEO DEL NORTE 77,957
  7. MENAUL/WYOMING 77,856
  8. LOMAS/SAN MATEO 77,321
  9. #COORS/IRVING 77,170
  10. #COORS/QUAIL 74,201
  11. LOUISIANA/MENAUL 73,406
  12. COORS/MONTANO 72,195
  13. ACADEMY/WYOMING 71,609
  14. EUBANK/LOMAS 71,095
  15. #EUBANK/MONTGOMERY 70,443
  16. CENTRAL/SAN MATEO 69,124
  17. #COORS BYPASS/ELLISON 68,586
  18. COORS/COORS BYPASS 66,181
  19. EUBANK/MENAUL 65,679
  20. LOMAS/WYOMING 65,345
  21. PAN AMERICAN EAST/PASEO DEL NORTE 64,031
  22. JUAN TABO/LOMAS 63,574
  23. CANDELARIA/SAN MATEO 63,514
  24. MONTGOMERY/PAN AMERICAN EAST 63,222
  25. CARLISLE/MENAUL 62,935

Source: MRCOG

Paseo del Norte and Coors is not among the busiest, though it has had the most collisions. Beware! (And there is a traffic camera there to nab light runners.)

2 thoughts on “New Mexico’s worst intersections”

  2. Looks like it, although it would be interesting to see the volume of traffic at each of these intersections. I think the statistic of greatest interest would be number of accidents/total traffic. That should reveal intersections that have more than their share of accidents — perhaps due to poor design or other factors (like proxmitiy to a high school). Based on no more information than the above (I don’t know the streets in Albuquerque) I can guess that following Debby’s advice would be difficult — that is, I bet that Coors and Montgomery are the major streets in town.

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