Perhaps your schedule in life events today is, as for many, atop the knife’s edge between holidays commemorating sun cycles/resisitant Maccabis/reaffirming African heritage/etc. and advent of another year in the Julian Calendar. If so, what a perfect restful opportunity to spend the day perusing all 259 pages of the draft “Transitions 2045 Metropolitan Transporation Plan”… Read More Your Chance to Read/Comment on a Transpo Plan

Travel, even a short distance, opens the mind. I took the Rail Runner up to Santa Fe this past weekend to bicycle some of the City Different’s many multi-use paths/trails and generally de-ABQ for a bit. Having moved to New Mexico in 1993 and very early on dismissing the idea that I would ever live… Read More Weekend Cycling in Santa Fe

The following graph combines my two most beloved local institutions, Downtown Albuquerque News (DAN) and the New Mexico Rail Runner (RR): As you probably know because you’re a subscriber (you’re a subscriber, right?), DAN publishes a monthly “Climate and Transport Index” full of marvelously simple, yet informative graphs such as above. While the preponderance of… Read More My Chocolate (DAN) and Peanut Butter (RR)

Having watched quite a bit of last night’s roughly eight-hour Albuquerque City Council, my overall feeling is that anyone attending, participating, or conducting anything close to the whole thing should get today off from work. And maybe a nice cuddle pillow to clutch while decompressing for at least eight hours in a comfy place. It… Read More Council Approves Bike Plan, Eventually

Note: This post is really about transportation, but ya gotta stick with it a while before further discussion of the I-25 S-Curve Study. Remember the Haloid Xerox Foto-Flo Model C “photographic recorder”? You know, this: Okay, maybe you don’t remember the Haloid Xerox Foto-Flo Model C “photographic recorder.” I’ve been having an absolute whale of… Read More In Which Photocopier History is Compared to the I-25 S-Curve Study

For decades well into the 1960s, the Albuquerque Journal published a story and info box like this one just about everyday, generally on its most coveted front page. While each/both Albuquerque newspapers (yes, Virginia, there was a time when ABQ had more than one newspaper) frequently included little stories about NM traffic death counts, the… Read More Dear Journal: Bring Back “State Traffic Deaths”