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
PCI color-coding for area around Menaul/Alvarado (subject of future post) via ArcGIS platform mentioned below We might not have much in New Mexico when it comes to some things (e.g., manufacturing jobs, Malaysian restaurants, ethical House leadership in the Legislature), but one thing we do have, I’ve found, is a number of local government folks… Read More Taking Time to Thank Those Helping Better Burque
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
