New Mexico's Transportation
The full transportation picture, county by county: traffic fatalities, bridge condition and age, the federal dollars flowing in, the projects in flight, and how the money splits across modes (highways, transit, aviation, rail). New Mexico's long rural distances and interstate corridors make this one of the state's hardest challenges. Pick a card, open a county for its safety, infrastructure and investment, or search your address.
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Click a county for its road-safety and bridge-condition picture: traffic deaths, the rate per 100,000 residents, bridge condition, and where it stands versus the rest of the state.
Traffic fatalities: NHTSA FARS, 2020β2022 (annual average and a rate per 100,000 residents). Bridges: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2023: condition (Good β₯7 / Fair 5β6 / Poor β€4 on the lowest component) and age (since built or last rebuilt). Investment, projects & modes: USASpending.gov, U.S. DOT awards FY2022 to 2024. County totals are place-of-performance (where the work happens); the statewide mode split is recipient-location (transit & some grants are booked to the recipient's county, not the road); "active" means the award's end date is still in the future. These are federal awards only, not state, local, or tribal spending. The optional project overlay on the map is NMDOT's eSTIP (State Transportation Improvement Program) project locations, the actual road and bridge work, drawn on the roads themselves. An honest caution on the fatality rate: small interstate counties (Guadalupe, De Baca) read high because many victims are travelers passing through, not residents, so the priority list ranks by number of people killed instead. Describes conditions to inform where investment goes; it never ranks whose community matters more. How this data may & may not be used β