Ever found yourself on a walk, roll, or bicycle at a place in town that got you dreaming, “jeez, if there was only a bridge over this roadway infrastructural hellhole I am currently experiencing”? Just to pick one of many possible for instances, maybe you’ve been coming down Lead Avenue westbound approaching I-25 and thought,… Read More The Everly Brothers and ABQ Rail Trail

You might have had the chance to walk, ride, or drive through the new combination of bike and parking lanes on a 2023 road-dieted 6th between McKnight south to Mountain in Wells Park, here brazenly stolen from a nice illustration by Downtown Albuquerque News: Going from two one-way southbound driving lanes to one enabled created… Read More Stuck Inside of 6th St. with the Parked Car Blues Again

Hard-hitting lead editorial in today’s Albuquerque Journal, if by “today” one means November 6th, 1935. For emphasis and those who might have trouble reading the above on a phone, etc. “It is understood that the new investigation is to approach the traffic problem and its death told from a mechanical rather than a moral viewpoint.… Read More ABQ Journal Demands Traffic Death Toll Action

About ten years ago, an intense, rather belligerent guy headed this City board I got roped into doing, the Greater Albuquerque Bicycle Advisory Committee (GABAC). I got roped in because somebody told me I was smart, and I’m always a sucker for anyone who tells me that. If I ever win the lottery, all ya… Read More That Proposed Edith Blvd. Bike Boulevard

Looking through City of Albuquerque’s announcement and media coverage regarding upcoming multi-modal improvements on Louisiana Blvd. from Gibson Blvd. north to Central Avenue, I’m not finding any mention of Angelica Baca. Let’s correct that omission here. Back on March 23rd of 2019, Ms. Baca was trying to cross Louisiana Blvd. at Ross SE, roughly midway… Read More Angelica Baca and Announced Louisiana Blvd. Improvements