Question: Where is this photo of the semi-official Better Burque Staff Mascot “Colgi” taken? And why is it quite a bit easier to ride a road bike/skinny tires there these days? Hint Photo: Any ideas where photo #1 was taken? Any ideas why getting there is easier these days? No, it’s not because of the… Read More BB VaguePost #1: Where is This; Why is Riding a Bike There Easy These Days?
One of the key tools for approaching “vision zero” – reducing transportation fatalities to zero – is the separation of vulnerable transportation system users from big wheeled machines that can cause their death. This is using engineering – in this case transportation system design – to add layers of safety, rather than depending solely on… Read More What is the opposite of “Vision Zero”? “Vision Infinity”?
by Scot I really, really am trying to never write a single word about K-12 education in New Mexico, ever, ever again. But NM Public Education Department (PED) pulls me back in like the Mafia or Sin Nombre tweet. Reading Shelby Parea’s fine piece in the Journal this morning about the ongoing spat between PED… Read More Meanwhile Back at the NM Public Education Lame Duck Dumpster Fire
by Scot Because I’m currently too busy to think about anything other than whether using “extends” or “lengthens” is a better word choice in a grant application, it took a Tweet this afternoon from Urban ABQ to remind me about this Friday’s, the 27th, deadline to get comments in for the draft Regional Transportation Safety… Read More Get Your Regional Transportation Safety Action Plan Comments In! Now!
by Scot I only have a minute or two before I must reenter “Federal Grant Purgatory” (all of the Hell, but with limbo included), but, in batting around cycling route ideas on fixing the long-detested stretch of El Pueblo east of North Diversion Channel Trail, what if we obviated any interaction with the train tracks… Read More Let Me Run an Idea By You: Avoiding the Dreaded El Pueblo Train Tracks
Albuquerque is not alone in its long, painful wait for federal transit dollars, according to Streetsblog’s Angie Schmitt: The Trump administration has slowed the release of federal transit grants to such a crawl that expansion projects in the works for years are now in jeopardy. Under U.S. DOT Commissioner Elaine Chao, the Federal Transit Administration… Read More A.R.T. funding: It’s not just Albuquerque
