Sign the Petition: Support Zero Fares Transit ABQ into 2023

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What’s Happening with #ZeroFares?

In 2021, Albuquerque City Council approved $3M to fund zero-fare transit for everyone, eliminating barriers to transit access for all riders until December 31, 2022. The Zero Fares coalition is organizing our communities to urge the City Council to support funding zero-fare transit through June ‘23.

Why #ZeroFares?

BQ Ride reports:

🚍 74% of riders are low income

🚍 73% of riders either don’t have a vehicle or their vehicle isn’t working

🚍 Vast majority of riders are people of color

NM Voices for Children reports:

🚍 Area nonprofits saved $1.6M over the most recent three fiscal years that previously went to purchasing bus passes.

🚍 Transit savings may now be reinvested into client services

Zero Fares are about equity (people most impacted getting what they need) and racial justice (addressing historic injustice and disparities based on ethnicity and race) Continued funding of the Zero Fares pilot project is the right direction for Albuquerque.

The following toolkit will help your organization support the campaign for Albuquerque’s Zero Fares transit pilot program via digital organizing to ensure its continued funding in the city budget through June 2023. Here is the link to this toolkit:

You will find social media guidance including sample written messaging and graphics.. We encourage our partners to amplify the campaign by posting the graphics on various digital platforms and adapt the written messaging as needed, while maintaining campaign consistency with unified messaging.

Joint Hearing on Proposed Clean Car Rule in Albuquerque on May 4 & 5

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As petitioners of the proposed Clean Car Rule, the New Mexico Environment Department and the City of Albuquerque continue to prepare for the May 4 and 5 joint hearing before the Environmental Improvement Board and the Albuquerque Bernalillo County Air Quality Control Board.

Stakeholders and the interested public have multiple opportunities to participate in the rulemaking process going forward.

  • Any person who wishes to present technical evidence at the hearing shall file a Notice of Intent to present technical testimony by April 14, 2022, with the Board Administrator (pamela.jones@state.nm.us), including the docket number (EIB-21-66 (R)) and the name of the regulation (In the Matter of Proposed 20.2.91 NMAC – New Motor Vehicle Emissions Standards).
  • Any person wishing to submit non-technical testimony before the hearing may submit relevant evidence, data, views, and arguments to the Board Administrator:  pamela.jones@state.nm.us, telephone (505) 660-4305, or Environmental Improvement Board Administrator, New Mexico Environment Department- Harold Runnels Building, P.O. Box 5469, Santa Fe, NM 87502.
  • Any person may submit written public comments through the EIB’s public comment form. The Board Administrator will accept written public comments until the close of the hearing.
  • Any person may present public comments verbally during the four public comment periods scheduled to begin at 1 p.m. and 7 p.m. on May 4, and 9 a.m. and 1 p.m. on May 5, 2022.
  • The in-person meeting will be held in San Miguel and Mesilla Rooms 215 and 235 on the eastern upper level of the City of Albuquerque Convention Center, 401 2nd Street NW. Please visit the Environment Department’s calendar for Wednesday, May 4 for any last-minute public health-related changes.
  • Virtual participants can find meeting access information on the Environment Department’s event calendar for Wednesday, May 4, and Thursday, May 5.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) – New Mexico Proposed Clean Car Rule.pdf

 

New Documentary Features Youth Movement Demanding Right to Stable Climate

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Register to host a screening of YOUTH v GOV, a powerful film that follows 21 young Americans suing the world’s most powerful government to protect their constitutional rights to a stable climate.

The national Interfaith Power & Light invites you to screen this award-winning film as part of your celebrations of Faith Climate Action Week and join the community of people of faith preaching, teaching, and acting to heal the climate in 2022!

Register now through April 5 to screen the film for your group for free by streaming during the window of April 11-May 1, either to an in-person or virtual audience.

SAVE THE DATE: April 27, 4:30pm Pacific, IPL will host a webinar with the filmmaker Christi Cooper, and two youth plaintiffs from the film. Check back here for details closer to the date.

 

REGISTER HERE TO HOST A GROUP SCREENING

(Registration available March 21 through April 5)

BORROW A DVD HERE

Barrelmaker Productions has produced a limited number of dvds for houses of worship who do not have the capacity to stream at their event. They are available to borrow for $10 plus shipping.

Download screening guide