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Center for Transportation Excellence
1030 15th Street NW
Suite 750 West
Washington, DC 20005
Tel: (202) 349-1037
Fax: (202) 318-1429
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State-By-State Searchable Database

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New Mexico
Capital: Santa Fe
Population: 1,829,146
Major Metropolitan Areas: Albuquerque, Farmington, Las Cruces, Santa Fe
Federal Transportation Spending: $334,252,000 (U.S. Census Bureau 2002)

General Ballot Measure Information

State Ballot Process
New Mexico offers the popular referendum option only. The referendum has been available to citizens since 1911.

State Election Site: http://web.state.nm.us/Election/ElectionInfo.htm

County & City Information
Contact your county elections office for more information: http://web.state.nm.us/ELECTNET.HTM (Scroll to bottom of page for list of county contacts)

Ballot measure information
http://www.iandrinstitute.org/New%20Mexico.htm

Additional ballot measure information
http://www.ballot.org/states/nm.html

Specific Ballot Measure Information

Initiative Year	Community/Region for initiative	Type Of Measure	Ballot Date	Result
2002	Statewide	Administrative question	11/5/2002	Passed 51% to 49%
Description
Amendment 9 asks the voters to change the name of the State Highway Commission to the State Transportation Commission.

Outreach/Contact Information

Advocacy Groups

New Mexico Passenger Transit Association http://www.unm.edu/~atr/nmpta.html
Sante Fe Southern Railway http://sfsr.com/

Rail Passenger Group

New Mexico's Passenger Rail Action Group http://www.nmrails.org/

State DOT

http://www.nmshtd.state.nm.us/

Transit Agencies & MPOs

Albuquerque Sun Tran http://www.cabq.gov/transit/
Santa Fe Trails http://sfweb.ci.santa-fe.nm.us/public-works/BusSchedules/index.asp
Los Alamos Bus System http://www.labus.org/

Media Information

Newspaper(s)
Albuquerque Journal http://www.abqjournal.com/ Santa Fe New Mexican http://www.sfnewmexican.com/ Albuquerque Tribune http://www.abqtrib.com/ Las Cruces Sun~News http://www.lcsun-news.com/ New Mexico Business Weekly http://albuquerque.bizjournals.com/albuquerque/
Radio	Television
KUNM NPR - Albuquerque http://www.kunm.org/ KKOB News/Talk - Albuquerque http://www.770kob.com/	KOB NBC - Albuquerque http://www.kobtv.com/ KOAT ABC - Albuquerque http://www.thenewmexicochannel.com/ KRQE CBS - Albuquerque http://www.krqe.com/

Other Resources

STPP State Page: http://www.transact.org/states/default.asp?state=newmexico

APTA State Page (Info. on transit agencies): http://www.apta.com/links/state_local/nm.cfm