“Honestly, the feds have been ghosting us on this for the last nine months.”

Terry Brunner, director of Albuquerque’s Metropolitan Redevelopment Agency. The federal Department of Transportation has been canceling grants for bike lanes and other projects not designed to move cars. The administration is reviewing a grant the city won back in 2022 for a downtown trail. Brunner said that due to federal workforce cuts, getting final approval from the feds has taken months so at least now the city is free to look for alternative funding sources. (Bloomberg News)