Central & San Mateo: Making Meaningful Changes to a Highly Dangerous Intersection

Recommended reading this morning and it ain’t Better Burque. The new “Pedestrian and Bike Road Safety Assessment: Central & San Mateo” may have a long and snoozy title, but it’s an important read on a very busy and very, very dangerous Burque intersection. This report is the second produced in response to Albuquerque being designated a… Read More Central & San Mateo: Making Meaningful Changes to a Highly Dangerous Intersection

Another Pedestrian Death at Central and Coors: Will A.R.T. Help?

Albuquerque had been experiencing a decent stretch of not killing its pedestrians, but that changed with two walkers struck and killed in different incidents a week ago, including yet another case of hit-and-run. Both were at nasty pedestrian crossings. Wednesday night, the 13th, someone was killed at Gibson and Carlisle. Only hours later, another pedestrian… Read More Another Pedestrian Death at Central and Coors: Will A.R.T. Help?

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

Seattle Transit: Where Not Just the Grass is Greener (Money, Taxes, Taxes, Service)

King County’s (Seattle) Metro transit budget was $1.4B in 2015-2016. Yeah, that’s a “B.” ABQ Ride’s is around $40M in a given year (both including all services). What do you get for $1.36 Billion more? Well, for one thing you get pretty graphs of things like on-time performance: True, even for $1.4B you evidently don’t get consistent… Read More Seattle Transit: Where Not Just the Grass is Greener (Money, Taxes, Taxes, Service)

Can ABQ Ride Make Its Mandated Farebox Recovery Ratio Goal?

Continuing BB’s intermittent meander on bus ridership and transit in Burque, let’s get back to “farebox recovery” and last year’s ordinance that ABQ Ride achieve a 25% farebox recovery ratio (or .25, if you prefer) by June 30, 2022. Farebox recovery is basically how much a bus system takes in via fares versus its operating… Read More Can ABQ Ride Make Its Mandated Farebox Recovery Ratio Goal?

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