Each of us have strengths and weaknesses. For example, I have an almost preternatural ability to spot plagiarism in an 8th Grader’s essay, but have zero visual intelligence when it comes to roadway schematics, drawings, renderings, you name it. To wit: I stare and stare, but, in looking at the proposed intersection of Bridge Blvd.… Read More Calling All Roadway Experts: Fix this Proposed Intersection
When riding road bike on way too many AMAFCA service roads meets eternal cheapskate:
Precisely zero people are surprised that a pedestrian was killed at a San Mateo Blvd. intersection last night, and that is precisely the problem. We treat such incidents as “unavoidable” in the larger sense, the cost of doing business in having what amounts to an auxiliary interstate highway parallel to I-25. That the stroad has… Read More Visual Context for Last Night’s Death of Someone Walking at San Mateo & McLeod
Taking a brief bicycle-centric look at the failed intersection of Menaul & Edith BB discussed yesterday in the aftermath of a deadly crash, we see the following on the interactive CABQ Bike Map: In designing (which unfortunately might be too grand a term for how its actually unfolded) our bicycle network, the intention has been… Read More Reconnecting the Dots: One More Look at Menaul at Edith
Many on the Internet take/find solace on extremely tough days through cat videos or Drake memes. Here at BB, we reflect on days which test our mettle, faith and chutzpah by gazing at great photos of cool bike infrastructure. Courtesy Charles Kraft as part of our recent photo contest: There. That’s feels better. Stay vertical,… Read More One More Great Photo of the New NDC Bridge Near Osuna
Today’s Unfortunate Case Study: Menaul Blvd. at Edith Blvd. A male motorcyclist riding west yesterday morning, downhill, on Menaul just west of I-25 approached Edith. Then, as APD spokesperson Simon Drobik wrote in an email to Journal reporter Elise Kaplan: “As it (the motorcyclist) neared the intersection with Edith, a 2006 full size Ford pickup… Read More Vision Zero, One Deadly Intersection at a Time
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