What to do about driving, cycling and car parking on Campus Boulevard? Right now (well, literally as of about six days ago when I took this photo) it looks like this: Yeah, I “redacted” the license plate number because: A. The driver of the eastbound parked car is just doing what drivers, some residents, bar… Read More The Saga of Campus Boulevard, Continued

Every job has its easy and not-so-easy components. Take teaching, for instance, a thing I know at least enough about to keep myself in trouble. Teaching the sword fight scene in “Macbeth” to 8th Graders is easy. You can teach quantum physics, epistemology and algebraic geometry to 8th Graders, as long as they get to… Read More “Macbeth” and Traffic Engineering: Copper at San Mateo

A post from Urban ABQ yesterday on the pedestrian fatality epidemic led me to take a break from electoral satisfaction for a few minutes last night to far more poignantly recall and send along the map above. It’s from the very good, yet grim, Bernalillo County Pedestrian and Bicycle Crash Data Analysis 2010-2014, released by… Read More Power of Images: Albuquerque Pedestrian Fatalities

You might have seen news that Albuquerque’s bike share effort is expanding from 75 bikes/15 stations to 250 and 50 respectively. The expanded service, part of a new bike share model from MRCOG-approved vendors Zagster called “Pace,” also offers a “dockless” option to return bikes to public bike racks around town. While riding all those… Read More Desperately Wish You Could Vote Today? Now You Can!

November roadway fatality figures from the Traffic Research Unit (TRU) at the University of New Mexico are out (thanks for the quick report this month, TRU!), and while the rate of pedestrian deaths has fortunately slowed from October, and will likely not reach 2016’s recent year record of 77, the percentage of such deaths relative… Read More NM November Pedestrian Fatalities and Note on “Pedalcyclist” Deaths 2017