Just wondering. Why does Montoya Rd. N.W. end at these two unnecessary fences inches away from the I-40 multi-use path, when it could be a north/south connection from the “bike boulevard” that is Mountain Road to the path without riders having to go all the way to Gabaldon Drive? I’m also wondering if there’s an… Read More Today’s “Little Things I Wonder About”

by Scot This past Friday I finally got the highly informal, yet supremely official, Better Burque Cycling and Walking Count Program kicked off. I spent a half-hour at two locations. While these two intersections are only about mile apart, they just about cannot be more different. Site #1: Lead at I-25 Above is Lead looking… Read More Counting Cyclists and Walkers: Lead/I-25 & Yale/Silver

Gibson Blvd. awaits extension into Santolina, perhaps, at what is now the city’s far southwest side. I wonder what these neighbors think…

by Scot Where was I? Oh yes, yesterday I promised a second part to our look at the 2016 I-25 South Corridor Study and how it applies to Lead Avenue. Apologies that yesterday became today, which certainly sounds like a Beatles album title, the one with the greatest cover ever, but all that would be… Read More Lead Ave. & I-25: A Review of Its Bike/Ped Future in Two Parts: Part II

By Scot A graphic, blurb, and another graphic this morning before expanding on what “it all means” later today. Below is a visual detail from the 2016 South I-25 Corridor Study, a NMDOT-commissioned consultant look into the future of I-25 from I-40 to the Broadway exit south of town: See that dark red line segment… Read More Lead Ave. & I-25: A Review of Its Bike/Ped Future in Two Parts: Part I

Looking west on Central just east of the Rio Grande bridge. I’m gonna miss A.R.T. construction…