(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
Regardless of how you get around ABQ, there’s so much construction, repaving and such going on that it’s hard to keep up. Take Coal Ave. between 2nd and 8th downtown. It’s a project BB has held off reporting about because the project is still in some form of planning stage, precisely how far along a tad… Read More Proposed Changes to Coal Ave. Between 2nd and 8th Downtown
“Another plan I have is ‘World Peace through Formal Introductions.’ The idea is that everyone in the world would be required to meet everyone else in the world, formally, at least once. You’d have to look the person in the eye, shake hands, repeat their name, and try to remember one outstanding physical characteristic. My… Read More Ending the War With “Them,” Chapter MDLXIX: Pedestrians
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