Category: Bikes and Pedestrians

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

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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

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BB’s DCF Post for 7.5.16: A Few More Chapters on Burque Driving

It started out being blogging haiku and ended up at War and Peace length, for a blogpost. A few simple semi-coherent thoughts on Albuquerque driving and traffic become, well, you be the reader/judge, in this week’s BetterBurque does Duke City Fix posting. The above street cross-section, by the way, is taken from the apparently moribund… Read More BB’s DCF Post for 7.5.16: A Few More Chapters on Burque Driving

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Zuni Road Gets Long-Awaited “Road Diet”

Zuni Road, a street through one of Burque’s more troubled neighborhoods, is getting a “road diet” to address one of its many troubles, its high incidence of cycling and pedestrian injury/death. Councilor Pat Davis, following through on work started by his predecessor Rey Garduno, has been instrumental in bypassing right-of-way issues that have blocked a larger reconstruction to instead… Read More Zuni Road Gets Long-Awaited “Road Diet”

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Burque’s Encantado “Bike Lane” and Another Way to Blow $29,000 on Albuquerque Bicycle Infrastructure

There’s a certain percentage of folks who, let’s face it, think any money spent on roads for any purpose other than making the asphalt as smooth as possible, and the automotive trip from Point A to Point B as fast as possible, is a giant fucking waste of money. BetterBurque doesn’t like to curse, but the… Read More Burque’s Encantado “Bike Lane” and Another Way to Blow $29,000 on Albuquerque Bicycle Infrastructure

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Albuquerque Rapid Transit and the Bike/Ped Dangers of Central Avenue

A cyclist was hit and killed crossing Broadway on Central Avenue last night by a woman who was given a field sobriety check after the incident. According to informal recordkeeping, this is the 2nd Burque cycling death so far in 2016. That the death occurred on Central is no surprise to anyone. The “Mother Road”… Read More Albuquerque Rapid Transit and the Bike/Ped Dangers of Central Avenue

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