With one very notable and horrific recent exception, Albuquerque is experiencing two spikes in cause of death, but predominantly only hearing/reading about one. The seemingly every day report of a homicide by gun has our murder rate to that level which elicits cringing gallows humor and civic embarrassment. Holy crap, at the rate #ABQ is… Read More Deaths by Gun and Car Continue to Spiral

Thanks to the very kind folks at Bike ABQ, your humble blogger is attending his very first transportation conference. It’s the Smart Growth America, et. al., “Intersections 2018” event subtitled “Creating Culturally Complete Streets.” Day One yesterday featured two excellent keynotes, first from famed Streetfight author and former NYC Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan, and a… Read More BB Road Trip: Nashville Transportation Conference, Day One

One of the best “feel good” Albuquerque area non-motorized transport stories in the past few years has got to be the Alameda Drain Trail Project from I-40 north to the Sandia Pueblo border: This project is so good on so many levels: The route helps to fill a huge gap in safe north/south access in… Read More No Foolin’: Alameda Drain Trail Construction Begins

Here’s something to lift spirits on what has definitely been a tough week or two on the non-motorized roadway front in good ‘ol Burque. Remember those far too skinny bike lanes on Girard Blvd. from Lomas to near Indian School done as part of Girard’s “Complete Street” restriping? Well, as announced some weeks back by… Read More City’s DMD In Process of Fixing Girard Blvd. “Skinny Lanes”

Nobody likes it, not really, when fixes to roadways problems of engineering, education and enforcement (“3Es”) only happen when somebody dies. I had the chance to attend a meeting yesterday afternoon in which that sentiment was generally shared, even by those who have led the successful effort to have Mayor Tim Keller and City Councilors… Read More A Framework for Making School Crossings Safer Beyond Louisiana Blvd. and Natalie Ave.