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

Planned to dive this morning into the upcoming I-25 renovation of the Montgomery/Montano & Comanche/Griegos interchanges, but life has got in the way in the form of a sick barn cat. So I’m on nurse duty and will instead just stare at this while I pet the cat all day: The above is a screenshot… Read More My Cat and the Upcoming I-25 Renovation

Ever found yourself on a walk, roll, or bicycle at a place in town that got you dreaming, “jeez, if there was only a bridge over this roadway infrastructural hellhole I am currently experiencing”? Just to pick one of many possible for instances, maybe you’ve been coming down Lead Avenue westbound approaching I-25 and thought,… Read More The Everly Brothers and ABQ Rail Trail

You might have had the chance to walk, ride, or drive through the new combination of bike and parking lanes on a 2023 road-dieted 6th between McKnight south to Mountain in Wells Park, here brazenly stolen from a nice illustration by Downtown Albuquerque News: Going from two one-way southbound driving lanes to one enabled created… Read More Stuck Inside of 6th St. with the Parked Car Blues Again

Hard-hitting lead editorial in today’s Albuquerque Journal, if by “today” one means November 6th, 1935. For emphasis and those who might have trouble reading the above on a phone, etc. “It is understood that the new investigation is to approach the traffic problem and its death told from a mechanical rather than a moral viewpoint.… Read More ABQ Journal Demands Traffic Death Toll Action