Hwy 70 The Movie

Oct 6th, 2009 By: Scott Krahling
Topics: General Blog, Economic Development, East Mesa

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This month a movie is being shot in Las Cruces. Awesome, right? Finally some of those New Mexico film incentives benefiting us down south, right? Then everything came to a screeching halt... literally on Hwy 70.

Having a movie shot in LC is great because money will be pumped into all the businesses that these temporary residents use. However, the shut down on 70 illustrated something much more important, the need to finish and pass the county and city comprehensive transportation plan.

Here are a few videos with my thoughts:

On the first day of shooting I used Twitter to keep people posted on what traffic was like. Here are some of the tweets:

Hwy 70 between Sonoma and Roadrunner closed between 6:30am and 6:30pm on Oct 6, Oct 11-14 and Oct 17-25 (except 23). Huge delays!

Hwy 70 update: A resident who lives on east mesa just told me she's been on 70 for 32 minutes and has made it 3 miles (maybe).

Hwy 70: It took a friend 1.5 hours to get from Mesa Grande to Roadrunner (between 7:20 and 8:40am)

Hwy 70: Another resident, after sitting in traffic for 30 min, turned around and went east to Baylor Canyon

Hwy 70: One resident went north around Las Colinas to Del Rey and went back east to his gym on Sonoma Ranch Blvd