As a birthday present to yours truly, my bicycle and I were dropped off this morning by my wife, via pickup truck on her way to Galisteo, at the Western Mercantile in Tijeras. In other words, I did absolutely zero work going up 25 miles and 1500 feet of elevation, then zoomed down the 25 miles… Read More Cycling Tijeras to South Valley: A Spoonful Weighs a Ton
From 2004 to 2015, my job at Lomas and Girard meant a bike commute through downtown and up Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd. MLK was my good friend going up the hill each morning around 7:30 (well, actually about 3 out of 5 weekday mornings a week), and quite a bit less friendly going down… Read More How it Looks So Far: MLK, Jr. Blvd. Bike Improvement Project
Plenty of good discussion happening right now around Burque regarding how to inform, protect and enforce the new generation of bike lanes and other infrastructure around town (e.g., Zuni, MLK, Jr. Blvd.). Still quite a few bumps in the road, so to speak, but these discussions, and action based on them, will hopefully help smooth… Read More Quick Anatomy of “Don’t Do This” Bike Infrastructure: 2nd St. South of Bridge Blvd. Overpass
After having last cycled on the new, improved Zuni about eight weeks ago, I had the chance over the weekend to ride up and back from downtown in its “finished” bike lane state. Do you know how long a stretch of new to brand-new bike lane Lead/Coal/Zuni is? Yup, that’s six miles, as the crow flies.… Read More Zuni Ave. Cycling Update: A Trip Up and Back
After a bit of fun with Excel sorting, above are the places in town with the narrowest bike lanes. I put Elizabeth St. N.E. at Central Ave. at “0 inches,” as not only does the bike lane disappear approaching Central (that’s common, as everyone knows), but there’s signage up pertaining to installation of a new… Read More AABLE Bike Lane Report: Labor Day, 2016
Heard the expression “short and sweet”? File this one under: “short and bitter.” It’s the flash nonfiction tale of your City of Albuquerque tax dollars being repeatedly wasted, with subplots of zero communication between government “silos” & engineering/execution incompetence. Let’s take our story chronologically: April 1, 2016 (approximately): Above is how Encantado N.E. looked going… Read More DCF Post, 8.30.16: The Not-So-Charmed Life of CABQ and Encantado N.E.
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