Better Burque has written a large number of posts this year on the issue of pedestrian safety and deaths. If you’re interested in the subject, but missed these earlier posts, you can save a great deal of time by instead reading this simply stellar “rumination” on the subject by a team of Taproot Edmonton writers led… Read More Summing Up Pedestrian Deaths Much Better Than Better Burque

A “test” restriping of Rio Grande Blvd. from Matthew to Griegos is now in place, one designed primarily to see if a “road diet” reducing two driving lanes to one with a sizable bike lane will result in slowing down speeding drivers. And, yeah, there’s a big wide bike lane, too; however, as the KOB… Read More Rio Grande Boulevard Takes a Restriping Test

Work continues along the new iteration of the Silver Avenue Bike Boulevard at Carlisle N.E. (Photo: Anonymous) When is a bike boulevard really a bike boulevard? What changes to an existing, informal bicycle route through neighborhoods, often alongside schools and parks, must happen to expand the group of those using the route to the larger so-called *“8-to-80”… Read More On Civic Involvement Big and Small: Bike Boulevards

Courtesy “anonymous,” here’s the latest look at the “extended refuge” (we decided to use this term instead of “cycle track,” right?) being born at Carlisle and Silver: Much easier to like in its burgeoning green and yellow state, the “Refugio de Plata” (it really does need a formal name of some sort) will be getting… Read More The Carlisle/Silver BB Baby: Entering Green Bay Packers Phase

Regardless of how you get around ABQ, there’s so much construction, repaving and such going on that it’s hard to keep up. Take Coal Ave. between 2nd and 8th downtown. It’s a project BB has held off reporting about because the project is still in some form of planning stage, precisely how far along a tad… Read More Proposed Changes to Coal Ave. Between 2nd and 8th Downtown