Preliminary numbers are in from UNM’s Traffic Research Unit on 2018 roadway deaths, with 83 identified deaths to those walking NM roadways last year. Here is a month-by-month breakdown from TRU: The numbers continue to show the relentless trend of record/near record deaths to pedestrians, in particular higher percentages of walkers killed in relation to… Read More Unofficial Total of NM Walking Fatalities for 2018: 83
Following up on yesterday’s post on the 2017 walking fatality case at Juan Tabo and the Paseo de las Montanas multi-use path (between Menaul and Candelaria), I found this 2007 Albuquerque Journal story via pressreader on installation of the motion-detection flashing light systems placed at this and several other path/busy road intersections in Burque’s Northeast… Read More More on Those Motion-Detection Lights on Juan Tabo Boulevard
Better Burque has mentioned roughly 1.3 million times that 311/SeeClickFix (SCF) has great potential as a City government/public communication and transparency tool, but that this potential has, to this point, rarely been tapped. Many requests, particularly those pertaining to roadway issues for walkers and cyclists, tend to be “closed” without closure and noteworthy for the… Read More Key to Good 311 Communication: Possibility of Natural Gas Explosion
Note: The “book” below appeared yesterday, 1.2.19, in reversed form both here and through Twitter. To make reading easier in the long-term (the Internet is eternal, or so we think) it’s now been un-reversed. Prologue: A Sadly Simple Question Many BB readers now have today off due to treacherous roads. Some are taking advantage… Read More ABQ Roadway Story: Death at a Crossing, Not a Crosswalk
Let’s ring in the New Year with a 2018 success story made possible by the folks at City of Albuquerque Planning! No, we’re not kidding or being sarcastic! You are so cynical! Regular readers know that BB has been complaining, reporting, but mainly complaining for well over a year about gravel on the sidewalk that serves… Read More Big Thanks, City of Albuquerque Planning Department!
Published yesterday, Albuquerque Journal reporter Matthew Reisen wrote a thorough and well-balanced story on the spike in deaths to those walking area roadways. Better Burque was quoted, as well as law enforcement. The most glaring weakness in rounding out the report, no fault of the reporter/paper, was the paucity of reply from Mayor Keller’s office.… Read More Simple Question/Difficult Answer: What is a Crosswalk?
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