It’s off to a slow start, but, dammit, we’re gonna measure the width of every single ABQ bike lane in coming weeks, months, years, eons. You too can join the “AABLE” effort, measurement details found here at a recent Duke City Fix posting. Below are some hot, as in it was damn hot standing on… Read More Sexy New Burque Bike Lane Measurement Pics: Hubba-Hubcap
Albuquerque had been experiencing a decent stretch of not killing its pedestrians, but that changed with two walkers struck and killed in different incidents a week ago, including yet another case of hit-and-run. Both were at nasty pedestrian crossings. Wednesday night, the 13th, someone was killed at Gibson and Carlisle. Only hours later, another pedestrian… Read More Another Pedestrian Death at Central and Coors: Will A.R.T. Help?
Last week’s post concerned the existence and measurement of bike lanes, and “AABLE,” our effort to crowdsource measurement of them (including you!) will be on-going. Hope you can help out. Email me if you have questions, gripes, insights, and especially measurements for me. Meanwhile, let’s zoom past the rather horrific world of 2016, assume we’ll make it… Read More BB’s DCF Post – 7.19.16: Albuquerque Rapid Transit (A.R.T.) and Everything After
After a five-day backpack in the beautiful, if bark beetle-savaged, South San Juan Wilderness of Southern Colorado, I returned from nearly a week of incommunicado to catch up on all the news hell occurring in my absence. It was not fun catching up. Still, amid all the horror and divisiveness, it seems I missed some public… Read More Actual, Bona Fide Good News in a Media Plague Year: Silver Ave. Bike Boulevard
King County’s (Seattle) Metro transit budget was $1.4B in 2015-2016. Yeah, that’s a “B.” ABQ Ride’s is around $40M in a given year (both including all services). What do you get for $1.36 Billion more? Well, for one thing you get pretty graphs of things like on-time performance: True, even for $1.4B you evidently don’t get consistent… Read More Seattle Transit: Where Not Just the Grass is Greener (Money, Taxes, Taxes, Service)
Continuing BB’s intermittent meander on bus ridership and transit in Burque, let’s get back to “farebox recovery” and last year’s ordinance that ABQ Ride achieve a 25% farebox recovery ratio (or .25, if you prefer) by June 30, 2022. Farebox recovery is basically how much a bus system takes in via fares versus its operating… Read More Can ABQ Ride Make Its Mandated Farebox Recovery Ratio Goal?
