This one might need Bike Valet. Having attended a few road project public meetings in recent years via bicycle, I’m usually about the only one riding a bike to get there. Locking up at the rack is a pleasant, yet solitary experience. Sometimes I walk the bike in, if the bike rack placement doesn’t meet… Read More Tonight! See and Be Seen at the Silver Bike Boulevard Public Meeting
Loyal BB readers will instantly know what BSAP stands for and of our efforts (those efforts include you, right?) to alert the City to any and all cases in which intersection red light inductive loops are currently not detecting bicycles/cyclists, leaving us on bikes to either hit the beg button or wait for a car… Read More Bike Sensor Adjustment Project (BSAP): It’s Working, People!
Editor’s Note: This following is a contribution by someone who has lived in Albuquerque since birth, decades ago, and whose family has lived here for generations. They remember not only the building of the Montano Bridge, but the Barelas Bridge. We all miss the good old days. Let’s face it, things used to be better… Read More Getting Nostalgic About A.R.T. Road Construction
We at BB yesterday tried out the now operational HAWK signal at A.R.T.’s BioPark station. Importantly, we can report that the wait time at this HAWK is GREAT! Only four/five seconds of yellow before a solid red, unlike the City’s first HAWK signal at Alvarado & Lomas. In asking why the Alvarado/Lomas HAWK signal is… Read More ABQ Rapid Transit HAWK Signal Test: Success!
The more I look at this photo, the more it seems to evoke living in the South Valley. You might not believe it looking at the fast food marquees, but this photo was taken only two days ago. As they say, news travels slowly down here… The main reason I took the photo is to… Read More South Valley Photo…What’s the Opposite of “Reverie”?
You have probably already seen/read KRQE reporter Lysee Mitri’s terrific story on the case of Jay White, who was struck and killed crossing Avenida Cesar Chavez at a crosswalk in 2016. I first just want to make sure you see/read it, as it goes well beyond most such stories, print or otherwise, in extending not… Read More Beyond Victim Blaming and “Cost of Doing Business” w/r/t Walking Fatalities
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