If you’re feeling civic but not up to the State of the Union, the public meeting to hear recommendations from a study of the Silver Bike Boulevard from Yale Blvd. west to the Rio Grande River is tonight from 5:30 to 7:00: Charged with the meaty task of crafting an “ages 8-80” route comfortable for… Read More Tonight in “Why Can’t We Have Nice Things?” Silver Bike Boulevard Public Meeting
Regular BB readers might recall the start of our “Bike Sensor Adjustment Project” (BSAP) back in August of last year. Having heard from the City regarding proper procedure for reporting intersections on the bicycle network (bike route/bike lanes) at which bicycles, even steel bikes, were not triggering notice from the loop detector designed for this… Read More New Success in Project to Fix Intersection Signalization for Bicycles
Have you ever wondered what the bike lane under all the cars eternally parked in the bike lane on Central Avenue just west of 10th Street actually looks like? Well… Better Burque can’t claim that its phone call to “the cops” Saturday morning reporting several cars parked, as always, in the now totally completely utterly… Read More Parting of the Cars Parked in the Bike Lane Sea
O Rancho Seco Cycle Track, we hardly knew ye For if not signed so strangely as above We’d never thought you were designed To be a Cycle Track like this No drivers did, for they did zoom Into the Wendy’s unaware Mere faded stripes indicated “protection” Along your 227-foot gentle curve. No, you were never… Read More Elegy for Rancho Seco Cycle Track
Having finished my first round of research of Albuquerque Police Department reports on 2017-2018 walking fatalities, I can report that many of the lives ended by these incidents were anything but smooth and often troubled. As noted sometime back, it makes sense given that we have made walking our roadways so unsafe that only those… Read More Small Details of “Pedestrian Error” at Menaul and University NE
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