With a $5.4 billion transit referendum on its May 1st ballot, Nashville is currently a hotbed of transportation discussion, including signs we in *Albuquerque recall only too well in months past: In the middle of the referendum heat, Nashville’s new mayor (why a new mayor, long story) David Briley sat down with famed former NYC… Read More Nashville Mayor Signs “Declaration of Transportation Independence”
It’s been fun to be out of town as friends and colleagues send me photos of the new, wider, more Complete Streets compliant bike lanes on Girard north of Lomas: These pics and others give closure to a process of change that started a bit wobbly in terms of government/public conversation, but ends with… Read More Girard Boulevard: A Finished Complete Street, for Now
Intensive Wikipedia-level research (a fine oxymoron that) reveals that absolutely nobody calls Nashville, “The Nash,” a heretofore outcome this blogpost will forever change. Immediately after hitting “publish,” endearments like “Athens of the South” and “Smashville” will be swept away in a Cumberland River of love and affection for “The Nash.” BB also expects sizable royalty… Read More BB Road Trip: “The Nash” Photo Essay
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
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