One of BB’s favorite bicycle rides is looping down and around through Mesa del Sol. For years, such rides have included scant views of new construction, outside of movie/streaming set recreations of old West towns, and wide vistas of dirt only moved by the incessant winds. The “60,000 jobs, 38,000 homes and a town center”… Read More Belated but Possibly Big Changes at/near Mesa del Sol
By John Fleck The Better Burque Tactical Urbanism Team (BBTUT) needs your help. The traffic sign above seems to be telling the driver of the big bus on the left, “At some point in the near future, you’re going to have to slide over into this bicycle lane.” It seems to be telling the bicyclist… Read More Albuquerque traffic engineering to cyclists: “@#$%&!”
Last night, the Better Burque Tactical Urbanism Team (BBTUT) came across this sign blocking the eastbound sidewalk on Central Avenue at Laguna: A quick ride east on Central revealed the only sidewalk work in-process was some distance east, beyond the Laguna (“WeDo”) Albuquerque Rapid Transit (A.R.T.) Station, so BBTUT performed the necessary service: A bird’s-eye… Read More “Sidewalk Closed Cross Here” and Those A.R.T. HAWKs
You can learn and/or remember a lot regarding the last half-century of Albuquerque transportation from looking at the New Mexico Region of Governments (MRCOG) repository of “Traffic Flow Maps” from 1968-2018. Every year, a map of traffic counts is put together, and the site collects these maps in an easy-to-view, fast-loading list/folder. One imagines that… Read More Quick History of Burque Transportation in Six Maps
Attention nether regions of Albuquerque area cyclists: A main source of pain in your nether region life is now only a distant, painfully wincing memory. The old wooden bridge decks between I-25 and Osuna have now all been replaced. This isn’t news to the nether regions of many area cyclists on this 2nd most traveled… Read More Those B-utiful New NDC Bridge Decks
Given BB’s small, select audience of public policy nerds, I’m guessing the sight of the “DRAFT” watermark below engenders a flurry of emotions, including ennui, sleepiness, and panic: As noted here last week, we’re currently in public/email comment phase regarding the draft of “Connections 2040,” the area’s update to its long-range transportation plan. As such,… Read More Further Reflections on Long-Range Transportation Plan Draft
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