The gentleman conveniently cut off in this photo caught me taking photos of his roadway striping work at Rue Belanger and Rue Drolet yesterday evening: Once caught, he started talking animatedly, in French of course, while I took another infrastructure-nerd shot. Having admitted I didn’t know French, he suavely moved into English to laughingly tell… Read More Please Sign My Roadway Striping Fan Photo
Despite, or actually a bit because of, the heat, I took a Noontime ride/pilgrimage to Montreal’s Laurier Metro Station display bike counter. Someday. Someday sooner than most might think, we’re gonna have one of these “Eco-Display” counters somewhere in Albuquerque. Call it optimism, call it overcoming our “we don’t deserve/can’t afford nice things” inferiority complex,… Read More ABQ Deserves Unnecessary, but Very Nice Things, Too: Let’s Get a Display Bike Counter
Don’t want to give too much away, as it is a “quiz” and all. Thus, the video below might take a second viewing for it to sink in. Still, it’s worth the extra viewing time for those interested in how to make things safer for walkers/cyclists and less encouraging for drivers through signals/signal timing. The… Read More Signal Timing Video Quiz: See What’s Going On in This Short Clip?
by Scot As dedicated BB readers might remember, your humble blogposter went on a five-week bicycle tour of Portugal, a tiny bit of Spain, France, and a snippet of Germany last Summer. I wrote about the journey and while those tales had just about nothing to do with making Albuquerque Better, it sure as heck… Read More The Winding Tale of Frankie, a Bicycle
A few weeks back, we wrote a little something regarding the new iteration of Burque bike share, PACE. A reader commented that tying use of the service to having the Apple or Android app was undesirable. We also noted the lack of monthly/annual subscriptions as unfortunate. Well, it appears PACE, and it current 13 cities… Read More PACE ABQ Bike Share Now Has Subscriptions and Cash Pay Options
Fixed and mobile speeding/red light cameras have been in place in Quebec cities since a 2009 pilot study first tested the idea. That’s not too long before Albuquerque voters “advised” getting rid of the City’s red light cameras at 20 spots around town in 2011. The arguments for and against this type of enforcement are many,… Read More Montreal Roadway Infrastructure: Red Light/Speed Cameras
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