As we continue our look at how to best connect the Silver Bike Boulevard in its shiny, new iteration from Carlisle to Yale with downtown and on to the Rio Grande, let’s shift away from the audacity of Solution #1: tunneling, boring and bridging our way through I-25 and the Alvarado Transportation Center, and tackle the… Read More Rethinking Silver BB, Solution #2: Curb-Protected Lead Blvd.

As we roll around ideas on how to best improve the Silver Bike Boulevard west of Yale to the Rio Grande, we first have to deal with the 75,000,000 ton (approx.) elephant in the path: Interstate 25. It’s a big, wide, ugly-ass elephant. Looking closer, we also see it’s convoluted: That’s four different road surfaces,… Read More Rethinking Silver BB, Solution #1: Blasting a Tunnel

Views on Google’s perhaps nefarious impact on our world and private lives aside, I really get a kick of playing around with Street View’s compiled visual history. For instance, you can look at the ABQ intersection of MLK and Locust (at I-25) from this past January , all the way back to 2011. Here we’re… Read More Completing the Job: Rethinking Silver BB, Yale to the Rio Grande

I know we in the Land of Enchantment are all very tired of hearing about how Colorado does everything better than New Mexico. Sick of it. Personally, I’m also sick of those folks who claim pretty much everything that makes Colorado better is due to the state’s legalization of marijuana. But that’s a topic better… Read More Colorado Continues to Make New Mexico Sick

Hopefully you’re less busy that me, and can attend one of the two ABQ Ride public meetings today outlining proposed service changes, including establishment of a downtown “free zone.” Specifically, I’m interested in details on this: “…add a fare-free zone for all routes inbound ending at the Alvarado Transportation Center.” Having worked in downtown Seattle… Read More ABQ Ride Public Meetings Today on Changed/Expanded Service

by Scot Given my druthers, I’ll always take the bike ride that serves some sort of travel function over a mere “recreational ride.” It’s just a personal thing. There’s nothing wrong with riding a bike to ride a bike, it’s just that I far prefer riding to work, riding to the next town in a… Read More A Good Reason to Bike: Head to Tonight’s GABAC Meeting