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”

If you have an interest in local transportation, or just like reliving the good ‘ol days of Covid Zoom meetings, GAATC (see post headline for what the heck that stands for) has its December meeting today from 4:00 to 6:00 at this very impersonal “room” on the Internet. The meat of today’s scant agenda is… Read More Greater ABQ Active Transpo Committee Meets This Afternoon

Albuquerque City Council is scheduled to discuss and vote on the staff/advocate-proposed 2024 iteration of the City’s “Bikeways and Trails Facilities Plan” at its December 16th session. In other words, near as I can tell, seven City Councilors who don’t give a rat’s ass about cycling and Councilors Tammy Fiebelkorn and Joaquín Baca are gonna… Read More 2024 ABQ Bikeways Plan Goes to City Council

Two posts in one day. Better Burque might need to slow down or hire new unpaid staffers… All this talk, study, and writing about the I-25 S-Curve might be prompting the same question raised by a reader earlier today: Why was an “s-curve” created in routing I-25 in the first place? Well, here’s why according… Read More Why is there an I-25 S-Curve in the first place?

I was going to attend Tuesday’s 5:00 PM NMDOT “I-25 S-Curve Study” public meeting at CNM’s Smith Brasher Hall, but hesitated to risk riding up Coal Ave. across I-25 during a darkening rush hour due to safety concerns. Going up that hill from Downtown at dusk with all those drivers desperate to get home isn’t… Read More I-25 S-Curve Study: It’s All About Coal & The Interstate

If you don’t have a reason or chance to visit UNM much these days, you might not have seen the recent changes to Campus Blvd., the road pretty much paralleling Lomas Blvd. south at the north edge of the Main Campus. About 99.9% of the University’s information regarding the project pertains to parking, car parking,… Read More UNM’s Campus Blvd.: You Say Parking, I Say Plastic Poles