The good news in the February Traffic Research Unit (TRU) report on New Mexico traffic fatalities is that 2018 is off to a much better start than either of the past two years: And the rate of those fatalities related to “alcohol involvement” is looking relatively terrific: Yet while overall traffic fatalities is trending down… Read More Pedestrian Deaths 36% of all NM Traffic Fatalities in February
Better Burque is following with interest the next legal steps regarding a Mr. Jacob Brown of Moriarty, who, according to reports: …admitted he stopped and backed his car toward a group of riders from Santa Fe Seniors on Bikes (SOBs) on N.M 41 near Galisteo… The results of Mr. Brown’s admitted action are that: Douglas… Read More Cyclists Hit on NM-41: Driver Reportedly “Stopped and backed his car toward a group of riders…”
Easy Story: Yesterday afternoon on 4th St. S.W. downtown between Gold and Silver Avenues: Yeah, that’s a UPS truck, in this case with flashing lights, parked on a clearly marked bike lane INCLUDING a sign specifically forbidding parking in said bike lane. Busted! Luckily for this UPS ne’er-do-well and scalawag, my photography skills are too… Read More Downtown Bike Lanes: Easy “Story,” yet Hard Reality
There are signs of progress in the city of Albuquerque’s efforts to make the Fair Heights Bicycle Boulevard crossing at San Mateo and Copper actually usable as a Bicycle Boulevard crossing. Better Burque readers and writers were excited back in January to see the new green paint and signs telling us that the intersection now… Read More Signs of Progress at the Copper and San Mateo Bicycle Boulevard Crossing
Headed for a meeting this morning at Albuquerque’s downtown Hyatt, I came across this: It was an Albuquerque City Planning Department truck, parked less than a block from City Hall, next to a “No Parking Bike Lane” sign. Literally right next to the sign. With, as you can see in the picture, empty parking spaces… Read More Bike lanes as contested space
I’m firmly convinced that the biggest difference between major cities and second/third-tier towns that never quite made it was/has been/is the existence, or lack thereof, of underregulated avarice, leading a few among us to become billionaires. While thousands, if not millions of workers, were trod (and sometimes literally shot) upon in the processing of creating… Read More What This Town Wouldn’t Give For a Few Robber Barons
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