Have you ever decided to do a minor remodel on your house, maybe fix up a bathroom or replace the 70s shag carpeting, and in the middle of that project somehow have 40, maybe $80 million dollars drop into your lap? In such cases, you’ve changed the project, haven’t you? Expanded the scope, maybe gone… Read More Meow Wolfing the Albuquerque Rail Trail
Due to safety shortcomings in ABQ’s/BernCo’s cycling network, such as it is, many of us drive to the Bosque Path or other area multi-use path, take the bike out of the vehicle, and ride that path. Over and over and over and over. This is nothing wrong with this, other than the safety shortcomings in… Read More “Safe” Cycling Alternative to the Bosque Path
When we last spoke, in that blog way where I “speak” and you tend to not say/write anything, I was going on and on about the lack of continued bike infrastructure on Academy Blvd. east of Ventura (the ABQ road, not the highway/freeway/neighborhood in Los Angeles). Let’s use this example as a springboard to expressing… Read More Routing Academy with a Low-Stress Mindset
Unnamed Sunday riding buddy and I ventured from our relatively proletarian neigborhoods (South Valley/Unnamed neighborhood north of UNM) and illegally, kinda, broke into Tanoan yesterday in a funny set of circumstances involving White Privilege (ours). That’s not the reason for this post, but it makes for too good of a “lede” to pass up. What… Read More What’s Up With the Bike Lane Gap on Academy?
Maybe it’s time we restriped Candelaria Road… Riding out this early morning to meet folks for breakfast at Milly’s (see map below), I took the North Diversion Channel up to Candelaria and turned west toward said restaurant. The red star at Candelaria/Stanford marks the spot of the photo above that I took this morning, July… Read More That Shameful Bike Lane on Candelaria
Being as you’re in this obscure neck of the Internet woods, you’ve probably heard/read findings of the preliminary 2022 report on pedestrian fatalities by the Governors’ Highway Safety Association. You also probably saw an accompanying graph that looked something like this from CNN: And maybe, you’re like me and you’ve been thinking quite a bit… Read More That Pedestrian Fatalities 1975-2022 Graph
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