You might have had the chance to walk, ride, or drive through the new combination of bike and parking lanes on a 2023 road-dieted 6th between McKnight south to Mountain in Wells Park, here brazenly stolen from a nice illustration by Downtown Albuquerque News: Going from two one-way southbound driving lanes to one enabled created… Read More Stuck Inside of 6th St. with the Parked Car Blues Again
Hard-hitting lead editorial in today’s Albuquerque Journal, if by “today” one means November 6th, 1935. For emphasis and those who might have trouble reading the above on a phone, etc. “It is understood that the new investigation is to approach the traffic problem and its death told from a mechanical rather than a moral viewpoint.… Read More ABQ Journal Demands Traffic Death Toll Action
About ten years ago, an intense, rather belligerent guy headed this City board I got roped into doing, the Greater Albuquerque Bicycle Advisory Committee (GABAC). I got roped in because somebody told me I was smart, and I’m always a sucker for anyone who tells me that. If I ever win the lottery, all ya… Read More That Proposed Edith Blvd. Bike Boulevard
Looking through City of Albuquerque’s announcement and media coverage regarding upcoming multi-modal improvements on Louisiana Blvd. from Gibson Blvd. north to Central Avenue, I’m not finding any mention of Angelica Baca. Let’s correct that omission here. Back on March 23rd of 2019, Ms. Baca was trying to cross Louisiana Blvd. at Ross SE, roughly midway… Read More Angelica Baca and Announced Louisiana Blvd. Improvements
Putting together tomorrow’s longer post on Edith Blvd. as a proposed “bike boulevard” in the City’s draft 2024 Bike Plan (page 99). Edith is a “Plausible Near-Term” recommendation on its list of priority projects, and, as one who has cycled Edith roughly three times a week for twenty years or so, I couldn’t be happier… Read More Edith Blvd. Bike Boulevard: Executive Summary
In case you’re interested in the draft 2024 revision of the City’s Bike Plan, but not interested enough to consume 142 pages of Bike Plan, here’s the most important stuff excised from pages 99 and 100. Given 142 pages, even a bureaucratically-saturated document (and even one in which your humble blogger played a beyond miniscule… Read More First Look at New Bike Plan Proposed Projects
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