ALBUQUERQUE, N,M. (AP) — It made drivers on Direction 66 and Interstate 40 in New Mexico do double takes.
A newly upgraded state Division of Transportation signal erected closing week that pointed drivers towards Albuquerque misspelled the town’s identify, shedding the “R.”
Folks known as and emailed the dep. to show the error at the signal visual to drivers at the parallel highways, mentioned Kimberly Gallegos, a division spokesperson.
A corrected signal went up this week, she mentioned.
“I don’t recall this going down sooner than,” Gallegos mentioned. “However I in truth assume this was once only a easy mistake.”
Albuquerque used to have every other “R” in its identify. In line with the town’s website online, colonists have been granted permission in 1706 by way of King Philip of Spain to ascertain a brand new group at the banks of the Rio Grande.
The colony’s governor, Francisco Cuervo y Valdés, wrote a letter to Spain’s Duke of Alburquerque to record that it have been named L. a. Villa de Alburquerque in his honor.
The primary “R” was once dropped later, leaving Albuquerque with its present spelling, the town website online mentioned.
