The folks working toward a “Vision Zero” transportation safety agenda for Albuquerque are meeting Monday, 4/16/18: Please join us on April 16th, 2018 from 6 to 8 pm to talk about implementing vision zero in Albuquerque as a traffic safety policy that takes an ethical approach toward achieving safety for all road users, setting the… Read More Vision Zero Meeting Monday, April 16, 2018
Awarding an interaction as “Best Politician Interview” is akin to “Best Light Beer” in terms of a very low bar, so to speak. Most, if not almost all, politician interviews are nothing but duck, dive, weave and inarticulately avoid. The same cannot be said for the recent fascinating chat between Albuquerque Mayor Tim Keller and… Read More Mayor Keller Drops Many Bombshells on A.R.T.
Today in “I’m not very smart.” This could very easily be a daily feature at BB. Since it’s installation back in 2015, your humble blogger has been trying to tell anyone within hearing distance that the HAWK signal at Lomas Blvd. and Alvarado N.E. has lousy signal timing, while the HAWK at Isleta Blvd. and… Read More Conclusive Video Proof That the Lomas Blvd. HAWK Has Lousy Signal Timing
Albuquerque doesn’t have a Pedestrian Advisory Board (yet) but you’ve got a chance this week to bring up the issue of pedestrian safety, accessibility, and stuff at meetings of the Greater Albuquerque Bicycle Advisory Committee meeting (today) and the Transit Advisory Board (Thursday). The charmingly chairless GABAC will talk Vision Zero, the late, deeply lamented… Read More Bicycle, transit advisory meetings this week
With a $5.4 billion transit referendum on its May 1st ballot, Nashville is currently a hotbed of transportation discussion, including signs we in *Albuquerque recall only too well in months past: In the middle of the referendum heat, Nashville’s new mayor (why a new mayor, long story) David Briley sat down with famed former NYC… Read More Nashville Mayor Signs “Declaration of Transportation Independence”
It’s been fun to be out of town as friends and colleagues send me photos of the new, wider, more Complete Streets compliant bike lanes on Girard north of Lomas: These pics and others give closure to a process of change that started a bit wobbly in terms of government/public conversation, but ends with… Read More Girard Boulevard: A Finished Complete Street, for Now
