Last night’s meeting of the Greater Albuquerque Bicycling Advisory Committee (GABAC) featured introduction of an idea by Albuquerque City Councilor Isaac Benton advocating that downtown ABQ have a 20 mph speed limit throughout. What “throughout” means in terms of boundary (e.g., does downtown, and such a restriction, include Lead and Coal Avenues?) is at an… Read More Is 20 MPH Plenty in Downtown Burque?
If we at Better Burque are going to capture/relate every single Suddenly Ending Bike Lane (SEBL) in the area, we better get on the stick. There’s soooooooooooo many to document! Here’s the latest installment, with a slight emphasis on the Southeastern quadrant of ABQ: Got any SEBL contributions? Send ’em in… Read More Suddenly Ending Bike Lanes (SEBLs) Chapter III: Starring San Pedro (Again)
I usually avoid having “worlds collide” when it comes to Better Burque and personal cycling/walking roadway advocacy, but I make an exception with the email below to those working on the Bridge Boulevard Reconstruction Project. I do so because: A. We discussed the Project here a few days back; B. It’s a very important project… Read More Making Bridge Blvd. at Isleta Blvd. Safer: A Formal Proposal
The April 2018 monthly report from the Traffic Research Unit at UNM further confirms the 2018 trend of fewer overall traffic fatalities and higher percentages of those deaths being those trying to walk on/along/near our roadways. Meanwhile, to our immediate west, the City of Phoenix is making both regional and national headlines with its sickening… Read More Walking NM Roadways Continues to be Deadly at a Record Pace
Editor’s Note: The following post is by Charlie Otto, who wrote on protected intersections a couple of weeks ago. Keep in mind that we encourage a diversity of transportation viewpoints here; if you’re interested in having your opinions known by readers of BB, drop us a line. Let’s face it Albuquerque is pretty spread out.… Read More Moving Beyond Sidewalks to Protected Cycling/Walking Lanes
We’ve so far only scratched the scab-like surface of bad bike infrastructure in our look at suddenly ending bike lanes (SEBLs or “seabulls,” which could be “manatees” but we don’t want to associate languidly graceful oceanic creatures with scab-like bike infrastructure, so “seabulls” it is). Here are today’s entries in our growing seabull collection. Unfortunately,… Read More Son of Suddenly Ending Bike Lanes in Burque (SoSEBLiB)
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