“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
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
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