Towns the Albuquerque crane requests cover
Coverage runs north through Rio Rancho, Corrales and Bernalillo, east through Tijeras Canyon to Edgewood and Moriarty, south down the valley to Los Lunas and Belen, and up I-25 to Santa Fe. Each city line changes who issues the street permit.
Your request is read by an outfit that drives I-25, I-40, Paseo del Norte and NM 528 most weeks, which keeps its travel figure honest.
The sheet bills from yard to yard, so miles turn into dollars. Expect a Belen or Edgewood pick to run roughly an hour longer on the invoice than the same pick in Uptown.
Miles from Civic Plaza
- Albuquerque - Civic Plaza. DMD issues barricading permits; the City Forester rules on street trees
- Los Ranchos de Albuquerque - 5 miles N. Village streets in the North Valley, irrigation ditches and big cottonwoods
- Rio Rancho - 10 miles N. Its own right-of-way permit, with a traffic plan due 7 business days ahead
- Corrales - 11 miles N. Village roads, acequias and large lots along the bosque
- Bernalillo - 16 miles N. Sandoval County seat at the north end of the metro
- Placitas - 20 miles NE. Hillside homes off NM 165, steep and unpaved drives
- Tijeras - 15 miles E. East Mountains through Tijeras Canyon on I-40
- Edgewood - 26 miles E. Across the mountains on I-40, in Santa Fe County
- Moriarty - 35 miles E. East on I-40 in Torrance County, farm and ranch work
- Bosque Farms - 16 miles S. Village on NM 47 in the valley, south of Isleta
- Los Lunas - 20 miles S. Valencia County seat down I-25, new warehouses and homes
- Belen - 30 miles S. South end of coverage on I-25, rail yards and farms
- Santa Fe - 58 miles NE. See the Santa Fe page for the street obstruction permit
Your village is missing?
Isleta, Peralta, Sandia Park, Cedar Crest and Rio Communities are fine too. Put the community name or a nearby cross street on the form.
Which office owns the road
Inside Albuquerque, the Department of Municipal Development handles barricading and excavation permits. Unincorporated Bernalillo County roads go through the county. Rio Rancho, Los Lunas, Belen and Santa Fe each permit work on their own streets, with NMDOT in charge of the interstates and numbered state routes.
Anything wider than 8 feet 6 inches or taller than 14 feet needs an NMDOT oversize permit to move, which is how the big hydraulic cranes and their counterweight loads reach a site.
Wind and the building season
Crews build all year here, but spring brings the strongest wind. April and May are the windiest months, so plan long-boom and flat-panel lifts for calm mornings and leave room in the schedule for a wind day.