It’s been a while since we updated on our effort to measure the width of all the bike lanes in Albuquerque. Reasons for this are many, including slothfulness on the part of your current chronicler. The hot Summer weather also played a role, most prominently in my often using it as an excuse to be… Read More AABLE Status Report, October 5, 2016: The SW Quadrant
“Witnesses report brain matter in the roadway.” It’s the absolute very first thing I heard just the other night having renewed my unfortunate recent habit of listening to theBernalillo County Public Safety scanner. In respect for the dead, I’ll spare more detail than that, as the ‘brain matter’ had to do with yet another pedestrian… Read More Pedestrian Injuries/Deaths: We Tend to Forget They Are Human
A BB reader recently asked a question about the Lomas/Alvarado HAWK signal I couldn’t answer, not being a daily rider in that area. This made for an excellent excuse for a bike ride, and I went out yesterday to the point where I got a bit of a sunburn. It was a great day of… Read More Another Look at Lomas/Alvarado HAWK: Time for a Version 2.0
In response to urban planner/designer Jeff Speck’s walkability analysis of downtown Albuquerque, the City has put up four-way stops along Silver and points nearby, soon to replace the existing signals. The work crudely reminds one of art installed by the environmental artist team of Christo and Jeanne-Claude. Below is a short photo essay documenting the current… Read More Downtown Burque’s Homage to Christo, Jeanne-Claude and Speck (Jeff, Not Richard)
Changing the subject, finally, from 1,000 words about street medians and how the death penalty is a “job creator,” Better Burque watched the latest episode of “Documentary Now” last night on IFC. The parody series on famous documentaries explored “Swimming to Cambodia,” Spalding Gray’s landmark monologue directed by Jonathan Demme. As someone who once drove from… Read More “Documentary Now” and Spalding Gray
From a cycling advocacy perspective, the median above looks to be about as perfect as possible. Look at that green paint! The easy-to-reach “beg buttons”! No left-turning cars to worry about! Did we mention the green paint! It’s perfect, isn’t it? No, from this, admittedly contrarian, cycling advocates’ perspective, the median above is far from… Read More Some Improvements Make Things Worse: A Case Study
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