The ditch beside my *farmette, or “ranchita” if you prefer, deep in the South Valley has been running since Monday, as I recall. Only three days in you can make out the full water mark (hint: look for a dirt line) and also make out how many users are taking advantage of the flow this… Read More Ditch Water’s Running: Get it While it’s Wet
The good news in the February Traffic Research Unit (TRU) report on New Mexico traffic fatalities is that 2018 is off to a much better start than either of the past two years: And the rate of those fatalities related to “alcohol involvement” is looking relatively terrific: Yet while overall traffic fatalities is trending down… Read More Pedestrian Deaths 36% of all NM Traffic Fatalities in February
Better Burque is following with interest the next legal steps regarding a Mr. Jacob Brown of Moriarty, who, according to reports: …admitted he stopped and backed his car toward a group of riders from Santa Fe Seniors on Bikes (SOBs) on N.M 41 near Galisteo… The results of Mr. Brown’s admitted action are that: Douglas… Read More Cyclists Hit on NM-41: Driver Reportedly “Stopped and backed his car toward a group of riders…”
Easy Story: Yesterday afternoon on 4th St. S.W. downtown between Gold and Silver Avenues: Yeah, that’s a UPS truck, in this case with flashing lights, parked on a clearly marked bike lane INCLUDING a sign specifically forbidding parking in said bike lane. Busted! Luckily for this UPS ne’er-do-well and scalawag, my photography skills are too… Read More Downtown Bike Lanes: Easy “Story,” yet Hard Reality
I’m firmly convinced that the biggest difference between major cities and second/third-tier towns that never quite made it was/has been/is the existence, or lack thereof, of underregulated avarice, leading a few among us to become billionaires. While thousands, if not millions of workers, were trod (and sometimes literally shot) upon in the processing of creating… Read More What This Town Wouldn’t Give For a Few Robber Barons
There is a saying that is, like most sayings, true most, but irritatingly not all, of the time. This one goes: “There is no bad weather, only bad clothing.” This saying is usually uttered in colder/wetter outdoors situations (hiking, biking, skiing, sitting in the outside bar at Marble Brewery) by those with better clothing than… Read More The Cat Days of Winter: That Anti-Frank Sinatra Wind
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