One hopes after months/years of checking the latest figures on New Mexico traffic fatalities, specifically pedestrian deaths, that this month will be different. With data point after data point making it more and more unmistakable that a major public health crisis is at hand, you hope to see a month where maybe only 1 or 2… Read More Broken Record: Deaths of Those Walking New Mexico Roads Continue at Record Pace
The news doesn’t seem to have made our Paper of Record, somewhat understandably kicked to the journalistic curb by more vociferous discussion regarding “$2.7 million in financial incentives” to a golfing Dave & Buster’s, but City Council last night did unanimously pass Councilor Isaac Benton’s ordinance changing the traffic code: To add bicycle lanes to… Read More Burque City Council Passes Bike Lane Ordinance
In tracking down the elusive set of new(ish) City of Albuquerque Parks & Recreation bike/ped counters around town (actually, they aren’t that elusive, as they are firmly planted on popular multi-use paths), reader Keith beat the Better Burque staff to the punch and recently submitted this fine, fine map after his own search: Better Burque… Read More On the Hunt for That Fifth Parks & Rec Optical Bike/Ped Counter
I guess this story has a happy ending, at least for one involving a Suddenly Ending Bike Lane (SEBL). Official BB Staff Photographer John Fleck sends along the photo above this morning. We’re looking at the northern terminus of one of the singularly most curious “Orphan Bike Lanes” (OBL…so many acronyms, whatever you do) in… Read More Every SEBL Tells a Story, Don’t It?
Editor’s Note: The post below is by Lee Ann Ratzlaff, community organizer involved in the effort to adopt a Vision Zero traffic safety policy here via the Vision Zero Albuquerque Coalition. Last year, 379 people died on New Mexico roadways. Although many communities write off these fatalities as an unavoidable consequence of driving, cities which have adopted a… Read More This is Vision Zero Action Weekend in Albuquerque!
Following a 20 or so year career with Albuquerque Public Schools and a hastily convened “starter retirement,” I’ve been dabbling at K-12 education at a South Valley charter school for the past three semesters. The experience been the usual combination of fun, exhilaration, exasperation and plenty of 3:30 in the morning angst trying to figure… Read More Endless Summer: My Very Last Education Post
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