Edith Blvd. Bike Boulevard: Executive Summary

Putting together tomorrow’s longer post on Edith Blvd. as a proposed “bike boulevard” in the City’s draft 2024 Bike Plan (page 99).

Edith is a “Plausible Near-Term” recommendation on its list of priority projects, and, as one who has cycled Edith roughly three times a week for twenty years or so, I couldn’t be happier about that recommendation.

But with a few modifications/suggestions.

Much more tomorrow on my various nits and picks, but here’s the “Executive Summary” in my “Yeah, but it needs to be a William St. – Edith Blvd. Bike Boulevard instead.” First, the northbound view trying to cross Edith Blvd. at Avenida Cesar Chavez.

And here’s how it looks northbound on Edith’s nearby north-south parallel William St. at Avenida Cesar Chavez.

Thus concludes my Executive Summary from tomorrow’s full report on why we need William St. to be part of any proposed Edith Blvd. bike boulevard. Any questions?

4 thoughts on “Edith Blvd. Bike Boulevard: Executive Summary”

  1. If only the CABQ bike plan, vision zero, DEI, and sustainability initiatives were serious, sustained efforts to improve the transportation options, and not just talking points and not checkboxes. It seems like more progress was made on the bike network before we had all these new positions. They talk the talk but don’t walk the walk / bike the bike.

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    1. Your frustration is very understandable, and these new city positions do often seem impediments rather than conduits. To make lemonade from the lemony situation, perhaps, there are already existant low-stress options in quite a few places that involved zero of these new city positions in creation. That William St. happens to go under Avenida Cesar Chavez instead at grade being a case in point.

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  2. https://www.cabq.gov/municipaldevelopment/news/bike-lanes-and-more-new-safety-measures-coming-to-louisiana-blvd

    While on one hand it’s good that something is being done, and even though $1 mil is a drop in the bucket (rounding error, really) in the city budget, we’re in serious trouble if they’re thinking it’s going to cost $115 million to protect all of the on-street painted bike lanes in this city (I’m assuming $500k for each side of the road and 230 total miles of existing bike lanes). Other cities are doing it for $40-80k per lane mile. Baffling.

    I wonder why they didn’t use that $1 mil as matching money for a larger federal grant? Then we could have $6.1 million to play with.

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