In a story BB refuses to stop telling, despite years of attempts to make it do so, its founder found himself in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala during the Summer Olympics of 1992 (Barcelona). After a very few hours of Spanish lessons each day, your humble blogster retired to the downtown room of his host family, seeking exactly… Read More New Olympic Sport: Race Walk Bike Lane Measuring
Keeping with the fervently anti-prose times in which we live, BB will now employ the common expression, “I’m just gonna leave this here.” First, here’s the currently proposed restriping of Rio Grande Blvd. between Griegos and Matthew (no, this is not the “Rio Grande Blvd. Complete Streets Concept Plan” section south of I-40): Using that 62… Read More Two Cracks at Rio Grande Blvd. Restriping Project
(Update, 2:52 p.m.: The Girard project plans are now available online. Here’s a blow-up screenshot of the Girard/Lomas intersection mentioned later in this post:) On my way riding to last night’s Girard Blvd. “Complete Streets Master Plan” public meeting, I couldn’t stop smiling. Why? Because Girard is my absolute favorite street in town, both as… Read More Making a Street Residential Again: The Girard Blvd. Complete Streets Master Plan
Lots of new datapoints added to the Bike Lane Effort, with a ride into the wilds of the Sunday Morning NE Heights yesterday. Streets covered included: Pennsylvania up to Osuna, Osuna around the golf course to Academy, then on to Burleson, Burleson to Wyoming, a tiny bit of Wyoming (because Wyoming sucks, even on a… Read More AABLE Measures the “Southern Hemisphere,” 8.7.16
Had a chance, i.e., was AABLE, to resume the bike lane measuring effort yesterday afternoon before the city was washed away in last night’s storm. Here’s what I found (Street/Intersection/Width in inches): Lead WB at Buena Vista 48 Lead WB at Spruce 45 Lead WB at Walter 59 Elm/High NB just before Lomas 35 Mountain… Read More AABLE Bike Lane Measurement Report: 8.5.16
Here are the 2014 figures (most recent available) from the Census Bureau on commuting. Albuquerque was at 1.7% as of 2014, while Portland showed an increase of 5,000 riders to get to 7.1%. An aggressive, yet realistic goal might see Burque tripling to *5.1% by, say, 2020. Or we could get all competitive and just… Read More The Mission: Tripling Burque Bike Commuters
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