Work continues along the new iteration of the Silver Avenue Bike Boulevard at Carlisle N.E. (Photo: Anonymous) When is a bike boulevard really a bike boulevard? What changes to an existing, informal bicycle route through neighborhoods, often alongside schools and parks, must happen to expand the group of those using the route to the larger so-called *“8-to-80”… Read More On Civic Involvement Big and Small: Bike Boulevards

Courtesy “anonymous,” here’s the latest look at the “extended refuge” (we decided to use this term instead of “cycle track,” right?) being born at Carlisle and Silver: Much easier to like in its burgeoning green and yellow state, the “Refugio de Plata” (it really does need a formal name of some sort) will be getting… Read More The Carlisle/Silver BB Baby: Entering Green Bay Packers Phase

Regardless of how you get around ABQ, there’s so much construction, repaving and such going on that it’s hard to keep up. Take Coal Ave. between 2nd and 8th downtown. It’s a project BB has held off reporting about because the project is still in some form of planning stage, precisely how far along a tad… Read More Proposed Changes to Coal Ave. Between 2nd and 8th Downtown

John Greenfield from the good folks at Streetsblog Chicago posted yesterday on the 2016 increased rate of pedestrian fatalities in the Windy City. His report included the following table: Let’s compare the figures above for Chicago with New Mexico, first month-to-month in 2016 from the Traffic Research Unit (TRU) for October: And now year-to-year compiled from… Read More Pedestrian Fatalities: Chicago and New Mexico

Last night a pedestrian was struck and killed near the intersection of Central Avenue and 86th N.W., on the City’s west side. Reports blame the victim for “crossing in a non-designated crosswalk area.” And that will, almost certainly, be that from a news/investigatory standpoint. We’ll just chalk up another pedestrian fatality and carry on with transportation… Read More Pedestrian Killed at Central and 86th N.W.