Editor’s Note: Dan Majewski, Albuquerque urban planner, multi-modal advocate, and current member of the Greater Albuquerque Bicycling Advisory Committee, wrote the essay below for Urban ABQ back in 2013. It is a piece always worth “reprinting,” but the recent reallocation of capital funds to do, perhaps, something quite like Dan’s proposal below is a good,… Read More Example of Potentially Successful Bicycle Advocacy: A 2013 Look at Indian School NE

With its lack of I-25 access (as shown above), Odelia/Indian School’s overpass crossing of the Interstate already makes this route a favorite of cyclists. Now it looks like we’re a step closer to making Odelia/Indian School NE even safer by addressing its speedway engineering. In what was a very short City Council meeting Wednesday, Councilor… Read More Making Odelia/Indian School Safer

To finish up our look at the 50-Mile Activity Loop, after having ridden it on New Year’s Day and having posted about it here and here, let’s toss around a few tentative ideas that address an overarching Loop question: Is this anything close to the best possible 50-mile Loop in/around Albuquerque? Our rules are pretty… Read More Re-Routing the 50-Mile Activity Loop

The story so far: John and I rode the City of Albuquerque’s (more on that in a bit) 50-Mile Activity Loop New Year’s Day. Yesterday, via a few observations and photos from John, we started to identify the good and still to be tweaked regarding the Loop. Before setting about to fix the Loop, let’s… Read More Fixing the 50-Mile Activity Loop

A few days back, BB posted a photo showing a lack of compliance regarding the new back-in angled parking along Monte Vista Blvd. between Dartmouth and Campus Blvd. Here’s the view late yesterday afternoon: See? Only a few days later, compliance is 100%. It just takes some time. Note also that my bicycle appears to… Read More A Welcome to 2018 Multi-Modal Greeting Card