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The unusual calm on the road was created by a yearly event, CiQlovia, that makes a vision of the neighborhood without cars real — for just one day.
Catalina Rivera, Martinez’s mother, said the family misses him deeply. “He died a very hard death … I don’t know what else to say,” she said, choking up. “… I cry every day, I have his picture on my phone and every time I turn it on I see him.” Rivera added, “it’s just the matter of the way he died – left there like a dog on the freeway…. I go to bed at night and I just picture him … it’s hard, very hard.” The number of pedestrian crashes and deaths actually dropped last year, but Albuquerque, and New Mexico as a whole, is still considered one of the most dangero...