ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Get ready for one of the biggest road projects to hit Albuquerque freeways in a decade. The New Mexico Department of Transportation (NMDOT) now says the first round of heavy construction and lane closures around some major interchange revamps will hit this week.
On Monday, NMDOT is sending out email and phone alerts about work starting on I-25 at Comanche and Montaño.
“We’ve started off just trying to get everything in order to start moving traffic to the inside lanes of I-25 within both directions,” said NMDOT Public Information Officer Kimberly Gallegos.
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The project will add an extra lane on southbound I-25, while crews will also reconfigure ramps at Comanche and Montgomery, including the permanent closure of one-way freeway entrance.
“The loop ramp is going away completely so yeah that will be taken completely off, and it won’t be coming back at Montgomery going to I-25 southbound,” stated Gallegos.