by Scot (with help from BB readers) Last week we had a “contest” to declare the “Most Dangerous Bike Route in the Duke City.” In case you missed it, bike routes are streets that don’t have bike lane striping, but are generally considered more convivial toward cyclists. They also serve an important bike transportation role as… Read More Results From Our “Most Dangerous Bike Route in ABQ” Contest

One of the great joys of bicycling socially is route sharing. Albuquerque is a great bicycling city. We’ve got a nice network of trails that are completely separated from streets, including one along the Rio Grande that runs the whole length of the metro area. We’re seeing more and more facilities on the streets as… Read More “I just found this route a couple weeks ago….”

Contributing today, in what we hope is only the first of her countless essays here at BB, retired city planner Coco J. Harris examines an alfalfa field that has become… Las Estancias – local units of the Spanish feudal “encomienda” system that depended on the indentured servitude of natives. Also, the name of a confusing maze… Read More “Las Estancias” Worthy of Pride or Consternation?

by Scot Key The new “governing” is to refuse to work with anybody, complain that “they” are all idiots, and then pretend to be magnanimous by making half-assed “compromises” that weren’t specifically asked for, unilaterally. This is called “listening” in this new “governing” model. At the national level, this is resulting in a semi-orchestrated train… Read More How Susana Martinez/Hanna Skandera are Like Tom Waits

Update 4.10.17: Compiled results of the poll below, along with incriminating photos of candidates, can be found here.  Rules: Find the Bicycle Routes (“A Linking Street, Where Bikes And Cars Share the Road”) on the online ABQ Bike Map in orange. (By the way if you didn’t already know, the online map is “interactive” in… Read More Let’s Play “What’s the Most Dangerous Bike Route in ABQ?”

The oh-so-not inviting “sidewalk” on Blake at Coors, site of a 2016 pedestrian fatality The numbers and reactions could be from just about anywhere in the United States these days, but today’s story on the spike in traffic crashes overall and pedestrian fatalities in particular comes from Los Angeles: Pedestrians make up nearly half of… Read More BB Goes DCF: Beyond the Numbers of Pedestrian Fatalities