The April 2018 monthly report from the Traffic Research Unit at UNM further confirms the 2018 trend of fewer overall traffic fatalities and higher percentages of those deaths being those trying to walk on/along/near our roadways. Meanwhile, to our immediate west, the City of Phoenix is making both regional and national headlines with its sickening… Read More Walking NM Roadways Continues to be Deadly at a Record Pace

Editor’s Note: The following post is by Charlie Otto, who wrote on protected intersections a couple of weeks ago. Keep in mind that we encourage a diversity of transportation viewpoints here; if you’re interested in having your opinions known by readers of BB, drop us a line.  Let’s face it Albuquerque is pretty spread out.… Read More Moving Beyond Sidewalks to Protected Cycling/Walking Lanes

We’ve so far only scratched the scab-like surface of bad bike infrastructure in our look at suddenly ending bike lanes (SEBLs or “seabulls,” which could be “manatees” but we don’t want to associate languidly graceful oceanic creatures with scab-like bike infrastructure, so “seabulls” it is). Here are today’s entries in our growing seabull collection. Unfortunately,… Read More Son of Suddenly Ending Bike Lanes in Burque (SoSEBLiB)

Beginning a new chapter in the sweeping saga that is Better Burque, here is our very first home movie.  We start with a very short film of the very short cycle-track on Rancho Seco between Central and Lomas. One added benefit from viewing the film is the chance to hear your humble blogger as his… Read More BB Film #1: Cycle-track on Rancho Seco

Continuing BB’s long look at suddenly disappearing and substandard bike lanes around Albuquerque, the street really deserving the Oscar, Grammy, Nobel, and Pulitzer of really bad lanes is Candelaria Road. While Candelaria “shines” in this regard over just about all of its wide expanse, stretching from the Nature Center at the Rio Grande River to… Read More “Winning” the Substandard Bike Lane Sweepstakes: Candelaria Rd. N.W.