(Editor’s Note: The following is based on a very true, very autobiographical story. The tale eventually winds its way back to having something to do with New Mexico, but we’re gonna spend quite a few hundred words in the Midwest first.) Let’s say you’re taking a long-distance bicycle tour of the Midwestern United States, having… Read More Bike Map “Levels of Service” and You

To give readers a wholly unprofessional and inadequate view into the potential future impact if the “Symphony Tower” is constructed at 3rd and Marquette downtown, here is what last April’s “Science March” would have looked like if a crudely inserted giant red rectangle was incompetently placed somewhat inaccurately near where the Tower is to be… Read More Powerful Look Into Burque’s “Symphony Tower” Skyline Future

There are five schools within a one-mile radius here, and many trailer parks, including the one noticeable in this Google Street View. One school, Robert F. Kennedy Charter, is mere feet from this kid. We can do better. And our “we” here means both City and County. Blake is a checkerboard in this stretch, and… Read More Walking Home From School in the South Valley, Blake Between Coors & Unser

Dear Mayor-Elect Keller: Congratulations! You’re now soon to be Mayor of Albuquerque at a time of great promise and just about nowhere to go but up regarding several issues. It’s a great time to become Mayor, and now that “we’ve” voted you into office (and perhaps added a City Council vote amid your runoff coattails),… Read More A Tim Keller Things-to-Do List

A few days back, we wrote about the “stillborn” red light at the corner of Coors Blvd. and Las Estancias in the South Valley. To be precise, the red light itself did the “writing,” in a manner of speaking. In these past few days we’ve learned a bit more regarding activation of the red light.… Read More Wonky Warning: Following-Up on Coors and Las Estancias

I told my fellow cyclists this morning that I’d like to direct a still photo montage of A.R.T.’s dying construction set to Elton John’s “Candle in the Wind.” In retrospect, that’s perhaps a bit much, although the roadway-related death of Princess Diana, and the 1950s/60s heyday of both Marilyn Monroe and “Route 66” all seem… Read More Elegy For A.R.T. Construction: A Bike Ride 11.12.17