The Better Burque Tactical Urbanism Team (BBTUT) rode up Zuni Blvd. yesterday unaware that there is road construction of some sort going on in “Trumbull Village.” Evidently that weekday construction means that the eastbound bike lane needs to be closed, weekends included. No, and thanks for asking, there didn’t appear to have been any… Read More Tactical Urbanism: Creating Physical Buffers on Zuni Bike Lane
Depending on with whom you speak, e-scooters are either the spawn of transportation Satan or fun. Or both. Several cities around the country have been invaded or pleasantly opened to, again depending on to whom you speak, the world of electric scooters through scootershares ala dockless bikeshare programs. Tonight’s Albuquerque City Council meeting offers not… Read More Burque City Council to Debate E-Scooters and Scootershare Tonight
It was a nightmare for drivers. That’s the lead sentence in a KRQE report on the supposed Conradian horrors created by CABQ’s Department of Municipal Development (DMD) putting up some cones to temporarily make Coal and Lead Avenue one lane instead of two. While it’s very, very, very true that outreach and implementation are not… Read More Welcome to Your Relative Nightmare: Lead Avenue Cones v. Senate Judiciary Committee
Annual American Community Survey (ACS) responses are now available for 2017, and both the League of American Bicyclists and Seattle Bike Blog do a good job of digging into the numbers. While the usefulness of findings from the single question on the ACS, “How did this person get to work LAST WEEK?,” is stuffed with… Read More Burque Bike Commuters: Me and 2,382 of my Very Estimated Closest Friends
Many of us received an email yesterday heralding the latest draft of the State’s very first ever proposed bike plan. Perhaps you, too, are avoiding other political matters this morning by reading it. For now, just beginning to digest the draft plan’s contents ourselves, let’s primarily just link to the draft plan and info page… Read More NM Statewide Bike Plan Comments Due by November 8th
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