A group of local pedestrian/bicycle advocates last night on Twitter engaged in a cathartic group rant, with pictures included, of places where Albuquerque’s pedestrian and bicycle infrastructure is terrible. It was accompanied by a running commentary of a common form: “Why don’t they just do X?”, where X is the obvious thing, like including a… Read More “Why don’t they just do X?”
Resolved: The multi-use path bridge at X is the bumpiest, most bike and body-rattling ******* bridge in town. The debate resolution above can lead verbally forensic Burque cyclists to many places around town, and countless bone-jarring memories, but perhaps no candidate for bumpiest bridge was stronger than the little, but deadly, one at the west… Read More From Bumpy to Butter: That Little Bridge next to Arroyo del Oso
Bosque Multi-Use Path South of Bridge Boulevard, 11.17.17 Anybody wanna help me fish out this heavy ceramic planter currently in the ditch as photographed above, and place it instead in the buffer on the Lead Street bike lane west of I-25? There might be a beer in it for you, especially if you volunteer to… Read More Found: Protected Bike Lane Starter-Kit
(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
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