“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
From a cycling advocacy perspective, the median above looks to be about as perfect as possible. Look at that green paint! The easy-to-reach “beg buttons”! No left-turning cars to worry about! Did we mention the green paint! It’s perfect, isn’t it? No, from this, admittedly contrarian, cycling advocates’ perspective, the median above is far from… Read More Some Improvements Make Things Worse: A Case Study
A few days back BB passed along joyous news concerning a new “Bike Route” sign at the Eastern terminus of the Zuni Road urging cyclists to extend their newfound Zuni bike lane fun up General Chennault Rd. N.E.. Now comes another sign, literal and metaphorical, surely portending the continued slow, yet inexorable cycling takeover of… Read More Another, very small, Step On the March to World Cycling Infrastructure Domination
If New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez is successful in her attempt to reinstate the death penalty, we could simplify matters by just having the condemned walk down Albuquerque’s Coors Boulevard There are evidently plenty of drivers more than happy to run people over there. You don’t even have to pay ’em. Here is yesterday’s press… Read More Another Day, Another Dead Pedestrian on Coors Boulevard
Before taking a not-very-well-deserved break, BB wrote of a bike ride which included a jaunt down General Chennault N.E., a newly discovered “Yellow Brick Road” of cycling wonderfulness connecting Zuni Rd. and, basically, the rest of Albuquerque from a safer cycling perspective. I gushed about the good General’s road with extreme gushiosity, including a call for it… Read More In Which Better Burque Profoundly Changes the World
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