It doesn’t happen that often, and when it infrequently does, it always takes far longer than you’d like. Yet, every once in a too-long while you argue, complain, and whine about something that needs doing. And it gets done. Back in 2020, your humble blogger starting looking into the hazards involved in just trying to… Read More A Little Multi-Modal Win
Some days are harder than others. On a few, only a few if you’re lucky, days it’s just really damn hard to even bother. Fucking humans. So Rosanna “Zan” Breuninger was killed last Friday night going into Saturday morning by, as best we can tell presently, a driver who hit Breuninger as they cycled at/near… Read More The Death of Rosanna Breuninger
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?
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