One of Albuquerque’s “Top Ten Most Unwanted” cycling adventures has been captured transformed through a delicious “road buffet” of restriping. Up to now, cycling west of the very nice roundabout at merge of Menaul and Indian School Blvds. to Rio Grande Blvd. has been a harrowing trip of speeding drivers hot-rodding on what amounted to… Read More City Gets Indian School Restriping Right
Few single words raise more ire in our beloved Middle Rio Grande Valley than “Santolina.” For many, particularly down in my neck of the South Valley woods, it’s a curse word, an expletive that locally replaces all seven of the words George Carlin discussed way back when. But let’s talk Santolina. Yeah, I’ll even use… Read More Santolina 1.0 Already Happened: 1999-2018
Last week we mentioned efforts to bring automated speed enforcement to ABQ, but until that happens we’re seeing more and more of these: Speed trailers have popped up all over town, both City and County. Anecdotally, it’s great fun to grab some popcorn and spend an hour near a speed trailer/sign observing driver reaction as… Read More Summer of Speed Trailers
The Better Burque Tactical Urbanism Team (BBTUT) spent quite a bit of our weekly Sunday bike ride yesterday moving these freshly placed signs from sidewalks surrounding Expo NM: We knew they were freshly placed because along the way we had the chance to chat with the crew placing them, cheerfully informing them that placing signs… Read More BBTUT Helps Move Traffic Signs Off Sidewalks
“Automated Speed Enforcement,” looks to be coming (back) to City o’ Albuquerque, and you have questions. Maybe the first one is: How many hundred thousand speed vans can we get and can we put at least three of them on _________________________ between _______________________ and ____________________ (insert street masquerading as NASCAR track here)? Excellent question, but… Read More City Moving to Fight Speeding through Automated Enforcement
On what should be a *delightfully cool, damp early evening, CABQ Parks and Recreation is hosting an outdoor public meeting today at **Tom Bolack Dog Urban Forest Park from 6:00 to 7:00 PM to outline proposed improvements, including what looks to be a fascinating multi-use path extension to San Pedro Blvd. Can’t find the link… Read More Outdoor Public Meeting Tonight at Tom Bolack Park
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