(Note: Another in what will surely be an endless series of “guest columns” here at Burque Babble! If you’re interested in doing the same, drop us a line here at BB and join the fun/nerdiness). By Burque McBikeface I spend much of my time advocating for better bicycle infrastructure. People typically respond to this fact by… Read More A 5-Step Citizen Planning Process to Advocate for New Bike Lanes
Photo: Glen Rosales, Albuquerque Journal, from “‘Crazy Crash Sunday’ Keeps Police Busy” This word “random,” I do not think it means what you think it means… “KOB 4 spoke with an APD spokesperson who says the number of accidents on Sunday was about three times the norm. They said there doesn’t seem to be a… Read More Good Clean Demolition Derby Fun in the Burque Sun
It started out being blogging haiku and ended up at War and Peace length, for a blogpost. A few simple semi-coherent thoughts on Albuquerque driving and traffic become, well, you be the reader/judge, in this week’s BetterBurque does Duke City Fix posting. The above street cross-section, by the way, is taken from the apparently moribund… Read More BB’s DCF Post for 7.5.16: A Few More Chapters on Burque Driving
Zuni Road, a street through one of Burque’s more troubled neighborhoods, is getting a “road diet” to address one of its many troubles, its high incidence of cycling and pedestrian injury/death. Councilor Pat Davis, following through on work started by his predecessor Rey Garduno, has been instrumental in bypassing right-of-way issues that have blocked a larger reconstruction to instead… Read More Zuni Road Gets Long-Awaited “Road Diet”
A cyclist was hit and killed crossing Broadway on Central Avenue last night by a woman who was given a field sobriety check after the incident. According to informal recordkeeping, this is the 2nd Burque cycling death so far in 2016. That the death occurred on Central is no surprise to anyone. The “Mother Road”… Read More Albuquerque Rapid Transit and the Bike/Ped Dangers of Central Avenue
The “conventional wisdom” presents the following combination of narrative plot elements in its creation of a typical pedestrian injury/death: It’s dark outside and the victim is wearing dark clothes Victim stumbles drunkenly into the street This stumbling occurs far from a legitimate crosswalk And there are plenty of cases where this combination of narrative elements… Read More Deconstructing the Pedestrian Injury/Death Narrative
