Courtesy “anonymous,” here’s the latest look at the “extended refuge” (we decided to use this term instead of “cycle track,” right?) being born at Carlisle and Silver: Much easier to like in its burgeoning green and yellow state, the “Refugio de Plata” (it really does need a formal name of some sort) will be getting… Read More The Carlisle/Silver BB Baby: Entering Green Bay Packers Phase
Regardless of how you get around ABQ, there’s so much construction, repaving and such going on that it’s hard to keep up. Take Coal Ave. between 2nd and 8th downtown. It’s a project BB has held off reporting about because the project is still in some form of planning stage, precisely how far along a tad… Read More Proposed Changes to Coal Ave. Between 2nd and 8th Downtown
“Another plan I have is ‘World Peace through Formal Introductions.’ The idea is that everyone in the world would be required to meet everyone else in the world, formally, at least once. You’d have to look the person in the eye, shake hands, repeat their name, and try to remember one outstanding physical characteristic. My… Read More Ending the War With “Them,” Chapter MDLXIX: Pedestrians
John Greenfield from the good folks at Streetsblog Chicago posted yesterday on the 2016 increased rate of pedestrian fatalities in the Windy City. His report included the following table: Let’s compare the figures above for Chicago with New Mexico, first month-to-month in 2016 from the Traffic Research Unit (TRU) for October: And now year-to-year compiled from… Read More Pedestrian Fatalities: Chicago and New Mexico
To misquote Colonel Kurtz in “Heart of Darkness,” “the disaster….the disaster…” “District 1 City Councilor Ken Sanchez said that the work so far is a ‘disaster,’ and that he didn’t expect so many lanes of Central to be closed even where no work is happening. He thought the work would be done in segments.”- from “City… Read More Councilor Sanchez Proposes Free Bus Rides During A.R.T. Construction
Not “Slick,” but another spokesperson for the President-Elect: Reince Priebus (Photo Credit: Gage Skidmore) In response to the story of a pedestrian killed last Friday night near the corner of Central Avenue and 86th St. N.W., a comment from “Slick” to the KRQE story online contained the following: 11pm on 86th and central. 80% chance it… Read More A Pedestrian Safety Message From a Representative of the President-Elect
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