We looked at evidence of gentrification a few months back, using a map created by the folks at Governing. While in the process of measuring bike lanes (still plenty of lanes left to do, see here for details!), conversation between measurements by riding buddies has covered many topics, including cycling and gentrification. Gentrification is one… Read More Burque’s Gentrified Downtown: Statistical Mirage?
In a story BB refuses to stop telling, despite years of attempts to make it do so, its founder found himself in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala during the Summer Olympics of 1992 (Barcelona). After a very few hours of Spanish lessons each day, your humble blogster retired to the downtown room of his host family, seeking exactly… Read More New Olympic Sport: Race Walk Bike Lane Measuring
Keeping with the fervently anti-prose times in which we live, BB will now employ the common expression, “I’m just gonna leave this here.” First, here’s the currently proposed restriping of Rio Grande Blvd. between Griegos and Matthew (no, this is not the “Rio Grande Blvd. Complete Streets Concept Plan” section south of I-40): Using that 62… Read More Two Cracks at Rio Grande Blvd. Restriping Project
(Update, 2:52 p.m.: The Girard project plans are now available online. Here’s a blow-up screenshot of the Girard/Lomas intersection mentioned later in this post:) On my way riding to last night’s Girard Blvd. “Complete Streets Master Plan” public meeting, I couldn’t stop smiling. Why? Because Girard is my absolute favorite street in town, both as… Read More Making a Street Residential Again: The Girard Blvd. Complete Streets Master Plan
Lots of new datapoints added to the Bike Lane Effort, with a ride into the wilds of the Sunday Morning NE Heights yesterday. Streets covered included: Pennsylvania up to Osuna, Osuna around the golf course to Academy, then on to Burleson, Burleson to Wyoming, a tiny bit of Wyoming (because Wyoming sucks, even on a… Read More AABLE Measures the “Southern Hemisphere,” 8.7.16
Albuquerque Rapid Transit (ART) continues to “Creep” forward, as Radiohead and many, many cover artists might say, with the latest in a flurry of legal challenges, maneuvers and folderol. Yes, we’ve achieved “folderol” status, folks! Yesterday, a federal appeals court granted an emergency motion after a City of Albuquerque appeal of the construction injunction (“what’s your… Read More A Short List of Bus Rapid Transit Legal Challenges
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