ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The long-awaited $62 million Paseo-Unser expansion on Albuquerque’s West Side is finally underway after the city broke ground Tuesday.
The project will give thousands of drivers some much-needed traffic relief when it’s done. It does cost a pretty penny but Albuquerque Mayor Tim Keller explained why:
“It has to do with the sand. It’s very difficult to have stable footing to pave on top of on the West Side. As a result, the roads degrade much faster. What we’re trying to do on this project is make that not the case. So a lot of the expense and a lot of the work you see is actually under the asphalt to make sure that we don’t have to redo this in two years,” the mayor said…