City bicycle planning documents and master plans, including current and previous network plans and supporting materials.
Current Bike Plan#
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2024 Bikeway and Trail Facilities Plan
The City’s complete adopted 513-page plan sets Albuquerque’s bicycle and trail network vision, facility recommendations, project priorities, and implementation guidance, with its supporting appendices and crossings guide. Official City PDF
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Bicycle and Trail Crossings Guide
Provides design guidance for bicycle and trail crossings, helping practitioners select treatments that improve visibility, clarify priority, and reduce conflicts at roadway intersections.
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Appendix A – Planning and Policy Framework
Summarizes the adopted plans, policies, and regulatory context that shaped the 2024 plan’s goals, network recommendations, priorities, and implementation approach.
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Appendix B – Community Survey Summary (Spring 2023)
Reports responses from the spring 2023 community survey, documenting residents’ bicycling and trail experiences, concerns, priorities, and desired improvements across Albuquerque.
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Appendix C – Project Priorities Survey Map Results (Fall 2023)
Compiles mapped results from the fall 2023 priorities survey, showing where participants identified desired bikeway, crossing, connection, and trail improvements.
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Appendix D – Bikeway Evaluation Process
Explains the plan’s repeatable method for evaluating proposed bikeways, comparing corridor conditions, network needs, feasibility, and project priorities across Albuquerque.
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Appendix E – Bike Boulevard Toolkit
Describes planning and design tools for low-stress bicycle boulevards, including traffic calming, crossing improvements, wayfinding, and strategies for managing motor-vehicle volumes.
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Appendix F – Priority Projects Tables (Jan 2025)
Lists the plan’s priority bicycle and trail projects as of January 2025, organizing recommended improvements for implementation and future programming.
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Presents detailed profiles for selected priority projects, describing corridor needs, recommended facilities, implementation considerations, and each project’s role in the network.
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Appendix H – Multiuse Trail Considerations (2015 Plan)
Preserves relevant multiuse-trail planning and design considerations from the 2015 plan for continued technical reference alongside the updated 2024 recommendations.
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Appendix I – Bollard Assessment (2013)
Documents the City’s 2013 assessment of multiuse-trail bollards, including operational and safety considerations that inform decisions about access-control treatments on trails.
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Interactive Plan Companions#
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Bikeways & Trails 2024 Conditions
Explains the existing-condition analysis behind Albuquerque’s 2024 Bikeway and Trail Facilities Plan, including facility gaps, bicycle traffic stress, comfort, equity, Vision Zero, and underlying interactive data.
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Presents the existing and proposed bikeway network supporting Albuquerque’s adopted 2024 plan, linking interactive maps with project strategies, prioritization, and the plan’s broader recommendations.
UNM Main Campus#
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UNM Safe Mobility Action Plan (2025 Archived PDF)
Plans safer bicycling and micromobility connections across UNM’s Albuquerque Main Campus, including separated lanes, shared streets, secure storage and charging, improved crossings, City-network connections, conflict analysis, and a phased implementation matrix.
Bernalillo County Trail Planning#
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Alameda Drain and Trail Master Plan (2016 archived PDF)
Guides improvements along the nine-mile Alameda Drain corridor from I-40 to north Second Street, including trail alignment, crossings, surfacing, accessibility, amenities, landscaping, water quality, operations, and phased implementation.
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Alameda Drain Trail Master Plan and Design Notice (2015 Archived PDF)
Announces the Alameda Drain Trail master-planning and design effort from I-40 to Sandia Pueblo, outlining intended trail, landscaping, water-harvesting, rest-area, maintenance, public-input, design, and construction work.
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Summarizes a proposed multiuse trail along the historic route and San Jose Drain, including alignment, priority projects, heritage sites, amenities, neighborhood loops, crossings, visual identity, and planning-level costs.
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El Camino Real National Historic Trail — Bernalillo County Route Map (2016 Archived PDF)
Maps the proposed El Camino Real National Historic Trail route through Bernalillo County, identifying trail segments, historic sites, parks, schools, transit, waterways, neighborhoods, and connections from the Pueblo of Isleta to Alameda.
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Isleta Drain and Trail Master Plan (2022 archived PDF)
Preserves Bernalillo County’s adopted plan for a South Valley community trail along the Isleta Drain, documenting public priorities, trail alignment, crossings, connections, amenities, environmental conditions, design concepts, and implementation.
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Isleta Drain Trail Master Plan — Reference Map (2021 Archived PDF)
Maps the Isleta Drain Trail planning area across the South Valley, showing the drain and trail network alongside parks, schools, open spaces, community facilities, drainage ponds, neighborhoods, and other public destinations.
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Isleta Drain Trail Master Plan — Aerial Network Map (2021 Archived PDF)
Shows the Isleta Drain Trail network over aerial imagery, locating trail segments, drains, canals, acequias, schools, parks, community facilities, neighborhoods, and potential South Valley connections in their built and agricultural context.
Statewide Bicycle Planning#
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New Mexico Prioritized Statewide Bicycle Network Plan (2018 archived PDF)
Identifies a prioritized bicycle network on NMDOT highways, classifies routes by investment tier, and provides facility guidance for incorporating safer bikeways during reconstruction and rehabilitation projects.
Official NMDOT PDF · Official NMDOT planning page
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Plan Appendix (2018 archived PDF)
Documents the plan’s highway tables, demand and equity analyses, statewide maps, public survey findings, and agency responses supporting the prioritized bicycle network.
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Previous Bike Plans#
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2015 Bikeways and Trails Facilities Plan — Final
Establishes Albuquerque’s adopted 2015 bikeway and trail network, policies, design guidance, project priorities, implementation strategies, maintenance practices, and supporting technical material that preceded the current 2024 plan.
Current City Lineage Summary · Internet Archive Capture of Former City PDF
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2014 Pre-Adoption Draft — Chapters 1–6
The 131-page pre-adoption draft preserves Chapters 1–6, including earlier project and cost estimates, advisory-committee options, policies, and implementation proposals. It contains map placeholders; the separately issued design manual is not included. Archived official City draft
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Appendix A: Proposed Facilities
Preserves the 2015 plan’s detailed proposed-facilities tables, listing bikeways and trails by facility type, street or route, endpoints, priority category, length, and project status for historical network comparison. Official City PDF
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2011 Albuquerque Bikeways and Trails Master Plan Update
Updated Albuquerque’s earlier bicycle and trail planning framework, documenting existing conditions, proposed networks, facility guidance, and implementation priorities at that time.
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Preserves the plan’s needs analysis, bicycle counts, survey findings, crash analysis, Safe Routes to School material, public-meeting records, and other supporting research. Official City PDF
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Documents Albuquerque-specific guidance for bikeways, trails, intersections, crossings, wayfinding, site design, and innovative treatments developed alongside the 2011 plan update. Official City PDF
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2000 Albuquerque Comprehensive On-Street Bicycle Plan
Established a citywide framework for Albuquerque’s on-street bicycle facilities, identifying network needs, recommended routes, design approaches, policies, and implementation priorities.
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Preserves the plan’s supporting bicycle counts, crash analysis, public survey, route evaluations, facility costs, implementation priorities, and technical data used to develop Albuquerque’s 2000 on-street bicycle network. Official City PDF
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1993 Trails and Bikeways Facility Plan
Documents Albuquerque’s early citywide approach to developing connected trail and bikeway facilities, preserving the historical basis for subsequent network planning.
Related Bicycle Policy#
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F/S R-07-268 — Bike Boulevards (enacted R-2007-109, 2007)
Historical 2007 legislation designating Mountain Road, Silver Avenue, and 14th Street bike-boulevard routes; phased Silver Avenue implementation; up to $400,000 in Fund 340 funding for design, engineering, and initial implementation; bikeway-plan amendments and crossing coordination; and the final-version 18 mph provision. Not necessarily current consolidated law.