Bicycling is a world-wide hobby that for some is a means of getting to work, grocery store, pretty much anywhere, and for some a hobby that involves quite a few days coming across the bike in the garage and thinking “I should really get on that bike one of these days.” Maybe you got your… Read More Cycling ABQ Wandrer-Style
Work offered me the opportunity to participate this week in the annual “Point-in-Time Count” survey of unhoused folks. Over three days, I had the chance to ride through and chat with folks in three very different, and very similar, parts of town: under I-40 around 1st Street, down around Wilson Park near Gibson and San… Read More Bikes and This Year’s Point-in-Time Count
The hard-working, kind folks at The Downtown Albuquerque News (Subscribe today! Here’s a free weekly edition to get you hooked.) recently opened the virtual floor for comments on the proposed, sizably funded “Albuquerque Rail Trail” project. Your humble blogger added to the sizable pile o’ folks commenting thus, but there wasn’t room for the entirety… Read More Rail Trail Thoughts for DAN: Director’s Cut
Kirstin King of Los Lunas is scheduled to be sentenced December 6th in the courtroom of Albuquerque District Judge Jennifer Wernersbach, after King eventually pled No Contest on a charge of Homicide by Vehicle (DWI) in the killing of Angelia Brooks, who I believe was also known as Angela Sue Brooks, Brooks was killed by… Read More 2021 ABQ Walking Deaths #4: Ms. Brooks
34-year-old John Miligan was killed at about 6:00 PM on Wednesday, January 27th, 2021 by the driver of what is believed to be a black, 2000 Chevrolet pick-up while Miligan tried to cross Central Ave. at Charleston near the new International District library. The perpetrating driver first side-swiped the driver of another truck before apparently… Read More 2021 ABQ Walking Deaths #3: Mr. Miligan
About 6:30 p.m. on January 16, 2021, 44-year-old Ms. Patches Graham was killed perhaps trying to cross Central Ave. near California Street. Motorcyclist Virgil Bunn struck Ms. Graham in the right westbound lane of Central, later reporting to investigators that, as the police supplemental report states, “he did not have time to ‘respond’ (Mr. Bun’s… Read More 2021 ABQ Walking Deaths #2: Ms. Graham
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