Central & San Mateo: Making Meaningful Changes to a Highly Dangerous Intersection

Recommended reading this morning and it ain’t Better Burque. The new “Pedestrian and Bike Road Safety Assessment: Central & San Mateo” may have a long and snoozy title, but it’s an important read on a very busy and very, very dangerous Burque intersection. This report is the second produced in response to Albuquerque being designated a… Read More Central & San Mateo: Making Meaningful Changes to a Highly Dangerous Intersection

Another Pedestrian Death at Central and Coors: Will A.R.T. Help?

Albuquerque had been experiencing a decent stretch of not killing its pedestrians, but that changed with two walkers struck and killed in different incidents a week ago, including yet another case of hit-and-run. Both were at nasty pedestrian crossings. Wednesday night, the 13th, someone was killed at Gibson and Carlisle. Only hours later, another pedestrian… Read More Another Pedestrian Death at Central and Coors: Will A.R.T. Help?

BB’s DCF Post – 7.19.16: Albuquerque Rapid Transit (A.R.T.) and Everything After

  Last week’s post concerned the existence and measurement of bike lanes, and “AABLE,” our effort to crowdsource measurement of them (including you!) will be on-going. Hope you can help out. Email me if you have questions, gripes, insights, and especially measurements for me. Meanwhile, let’s zoom past the rather horrific world of 2016, assume we’ll make it… Read More BB’s DCF Post – 7.19.16: Albuquerque Rapid Transit (A.R.T.) and Everything After

Actual, Bona Fide Good News in a Media Plague Year: Silver Ave. Bike Boulevard

After a five-day backpack in the beautiful, if bark beetle-savaged, South San Juan Wilderness of Southern Colorado, I returned from nearly a week of incommunicado to catch up on all the news hell occurring in my absence. It was not fun catching up. Still, amid all the horror and divisiveness, it seems I missed some public… Read More Actual, Bona Fide Good News in a Media Plague Year: Silver Ave. Bike Boulevard

Seattle Transit: Where Not Just the Grass is Greener (Money, Taxes, Taxes, Service)

King County’s (Seattle) Metro transit budget was $1.4B in 2015-2016. Yeah, that’s a “B.” ABQ Ride’s is around $40M in a given year (both including all services). What do you get for $1.36 Billion more? Well, for one thing you get pretty graphs of things like on-time performance: True, even for $1.4B you evidently don’t get consistent… Read More Seattle Transit: Where Not Just the Grass is Greener (Money, Taxes, Taxes, Service)