It’s a good sign when a community is well on its way to creating a contiguous set of bike boulevards so long the whole route shows up really, really small when illustrated. Albuquerque is getting darn close to being such a community: Big apologies for the lack of graphics skill, but I’ve taken the 2017… Read More Connecting the Bike Boulevard Dots to “Valhalla”

How would you like to do your part to make Burque Better, while also helping BB readers avoid seeing woeful videos such as that still-framed above? Scot could lie and tell you he shot the video stilled above intentionally, desiring to show interested readers the new San Pedro median cycle track “up-close and personal,” but… Read More Stop Bad Video: Call For BB Contributors

Any mention of “the need for education” on any topic almost always results in a solid collective groan of weary disapproval from just about everybody. I’ve worked in K-12 education for more than two decades. I know. So get your groan on this morning, as I mention the need for education when it comes to… Read More Educating Roadway Users: A.R.T. and Everywhere Else

Turn-lane median cycle track, San Pedro at Summer, 12.3.17 The bike infrastructural “greening” of Burque continues! The City also gets better and better at designing the entrance/exit points for such treatments (nice job here); think how good they’ll be by the time we get to the 50th such treatment around town! Try this one out… Read More San Pedro Gets Kermitized As Part of Fair Heights Bike Boulevard

Photo: John Fleck Yes, those are mini-curbs and flexposts on 4th Street separating drivers from cyclists, and, hopefully, drivers from parking in the bike lane. I might be wrong, but I believe this is the very first instance of mid-block physical separation between driving and bike lane in all of Albuquerque. Sure, we cyclists already… Read More Now Try Parking: Check Out 4th Street Downtown!

A BB post earlier this week mentioned that the October monthly roadway fatality information had not yet gone online from UNM’s Traffic Facility Unit. After having the chance to contact TRU, that information has now been posted (yup, one email and voila!), and the data is remarkably gruesome concerning NM pedestrian deaths back in October:… Read More October Pedestrian Fatalities Updated (and the news ain’t good)