We here in the deep South Valley have a big traffic change coming. After much delay and some half-ass interventions, Rio Bravo at I-25 is finally getting a complete rebuild. There’s an open house and public meeting tonight (details on a flyer below) to outline the final plan and the road closures/rerouting involved in making… Read More There Are Cycling Gaps & Then There’s…
A “test” restriping of Rio Grande Blvd. from Matthew to Griegos is now in place, one designed primarily to see if a “road diet” reducing two driving lanes to one with a sizable bike lane will result in slowing down speeding drivers. And, yeah, there’s a big wide bike lane, too; however, as the KOB… Read More Rio Grande Boulevard Takes a Restriping Test
(Photo from KRQE story) So “The Carlisle” seems imperiled, if not gone forever. It was never perfect and rubbed a great many the wrong way. Like an overzealously filled water balloon, it plopped over sidewalk space, alleys, and the sky. It had an inappropriately pretentious name intended to evoke Bobby Short singing at NYC’s… Read More Whither “The Carlisle”?
Work continues along the new iteration of the Silver Avenue Bike Boulevard at Carlisle N.E. (Photo: Anonymous) When is a bike boulevard really a bike boulevard? What changes to an existing, informal bicycle route through neighborhoods, often alongside schools and parks, must happen to expand the group of those using the route to the larger so-called *“8-to-80”… Read More On Civic Involvement Big and Small: Bike Boulevards
In lieu of extended prose today, let’s post more photos from the Silver Bike Boulevard today. Here’s a snap which not only includes a truly beautiFUL bicycle, but also a portion of the new diverter preventing motorists left turns and whatnot at Silver and Girard: And below are two others looks. Whaddya think? And yes, I was… Read More Another Silver Bike Boulevard Photo: Diverter at Girard
Courtesy “anonymous,” here’s the latest look at the “extended refuge” (we decided to use this term instead of “cycle track,” right?) being born at Carlisle and Silver: Much easier to like in its burgeoning green and yellow state, the “Refugio de Plata” (it really does need a formal name of some sort) will be getting… Read More The Carlisle/Silver BB Baby: Entering Green Bay Packers Phase
