RIO RANCHO, N.M. — Albuquerque has put a temporary halt on new permits for fiber optic projects in the city, but a woman who lives in Rio Rancho said the problems are now spilling into her community.
“I am currently driving my vehicle. It’s making a sound, there’s smoke, I don’t know where it’s coming from,” said Delilah Chavez in a video posted to social media.
She took the video minutes after she said she drove over a steel plate on Western Hills Drive in Rio Rancho. The plate is a temporary cover for holes in the road during a fiber optic installation project in her neighborhood…