This morning courtesy what used to be called the “Media” and is now almost exclusively the regurgitator of press releases. NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – In a significant step towards enhancing public safety, the New Mexico State Police have deployed advanced license plate reading (LPR) cameras capable of tracking stolen cars, locating missing persons, and flagging if… Read More A Very Good Use for New NM License Plate Reader Cameras

Someone trying to stay alive walking across 4th Street near Solar NW (think Sadie’s Restaurant) was killed last night. Below is the KOAT story on the incident (the only media coverage I could find online) in italics, followed by my version based on the former and my background into quite a few crash and supplemental… Read More Pedestrian Fatality Story Annotated

Continuing our series on proposed “Highest Priority” bicycle network improvements found in the new draft Bicycle Plan, let’s take another look at an oldie-but-goodie: Claremont from Richmond east all the way to Juan Tabo. Converting Claremont from its existing and evolving (e.g., traffic circles here and there) designated “bike route” to a bona fide “bike… Read More That “Now What?” Question: Claremont

Informed by numerous studies correlating physically-protected bike lanes with significantly heightened economic development, Bernalillo County has employed the concept in its Dolores Huerta/Cesar Chavez (formerly known as Bridge) Boulevard Project (aka: “Bridging Los Vecinos”) as shown here in a photo looking westbound at Isleta Blvd. taken yesterday. Combining a large stacked chunks of roadway and… Read More Those Exciting New Physically-Protected Bike Lanes

After having pondered weak government roadway “improvements” the last two days here, I don’t want to finish the week on such a downer note. So let’s turn that roadway engineering frown upsidedown by showing you a probably bad idea government ended up not screwing up doing. Yes, it’s a proposed loop (what they call a… Read More Happiness is Often What Doesn’t Happen

As threatened yesterday, my initial intention was to deeply dive (i.e., bore you to tears) into the as-close-to-final-before-they-start plans for the renovated Montgomery and Comanche interchanges of I-25. Consider threat retracted. Instead of a long post with intricate visually-supported evidence, I’m just pretty much gonna go with this: From a walking/rolling/cycling perspective, the plan for… Read More NMDOT Checks the Box and Leaves Us With Nothing