I was in the middle of yet another 1,500 word riveting ramble on HAWK signals, median refuges, traffic fatalities and other in no way boring or depressing topics, when I found myself becoming more and more interested in researching my bike “tour” to Santa Fe tomorrow instead. While my little four-day City Different jaunt doesn’t start… Read More This Post on HAWK Signals Postponed on Account of Ahhhh…
Sidenote: Am I the only one left who still prefers the hard-copy bike map? As bike infrastructure evolves in Albuquerque, a trend which probably constitutes more Better Burque content than any other, the rising need, more than ever, becomes overcoming the safety gaps between new/safer/greater infrastructure projects. While some cyclists only ride very short distances… Read More Where are the Bike Infrastructure Gaps in Burque? An Interactive Brainstorm
Still looking for remainder of 2015 data, but a perusal of UNM’s Traffic Research Unit website shows the following in terms of overall traffic fatalities and pedestrian fatalities since 2006 in New Mexico: NM Traffic Fatalities: 2006: 484 2007: 413 2008: 366 2009: 361 2010: 349 2011: 351 2012: 366 2013: 311 2014: 386 First… Read More Quick Look at NM Traffic Fatalities, Overall and Pedestrian
Note: This is the weekly BB Duke City Fix piece. Devoted BB readers will notice a few mentions below that have been made here previously. All that means is that you are a tremendously hip and cool person. So it’s a compliment. Enjoy… With 279 data points and 83 separate roads collected so far, and… Read More Last Chance to Help Measure Bike Lanes! Best/Worst of AABLE So Far
While licking my mental wounds from blog loss this morning, here’s a little something I found pertaining to downtown Burque changes from red lights to stop signs at several junctures, particularly Silver. It’s a memo from the traffic engineering firm Parametrix to the City of Albuquerque from June of this year. I found it via… Read More Background on Those New Stop Signs Downtown: Focus on Silver
For what I believe to be the first time ever in over a decade of blogging, I wrote about 1,000 words pertaining to the title above…and just lost it. Some accidental combination of keystrokes, I guess. While I’m crying, wailing and throwing my computer in the lake that is my front yard after last night’s… Read More AABLE Bike Lane Measurement Report, 10.10.16: North Valley Gets Double Secret Probation
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