As Better Burque reported yesterday, the protected bike lanes on 4th Street downtown, a feature of Mayor Berry’s “50-Mile Activity Loop,” are no more. Throughout its short existence, the “PBL” consisting of curb and flexpost separation was criticized by many, business owners and frustrated motorists wishing to park along 4th prime among them, of course.… Read More The Short, Generally Unhappy Life of Downtown’s Protected Bike Lane

  It is with great sadness that Better Burque shares the news that Albuquerque’s first fully protected bike lane is no more. Erected with little fanfare or discussion, the lane’s barricades – the one spot in all of Albuquerque where we had an entire glorious block of street set aside emphatically for safe cycling –… Read More In Memoriam: Albuquerque’s Protected Bike Lane

Elise Kaplan, excellent reporter and writer for the Albuquerque Journal, weaves both the personal and the crime reporting into her story this morning on the death of 12-year-old Eliza “Justine” Almuina. The 6th Grader was killed very near her middle school on Louisiana Boulevard Thursday. That story is, of course, heart-wrenching and maddening. Heart-wrenching, sure. But… Read More Thoughts After Reading the Story of 6th Grader Killed on Louisiana Boulevard

We’ve spent and will increase spending millions and millions of dollars to keep our schools safer, at least until students leave school and travel our far more dangerous streets. As horrific as school shootings most certainly are, the numbers of students involved in carnage at school is nothing compared to the statistics of young people injured… Read More The Most Dangerous Place for Young People Isn’t School. It’s Our Roads.