What’s Up With the Bike Lane Gap on Academy?

Unnamed Sunday riding buddy and I ventured from our relatively proletarian neigborhoods (South Valley/Unnamed neighborhood north of UNM) and illegally, kinda, broke into Tanoan yesterday in a funny set of circumstances involving White Privilege (ours). That’s not the reason for this post, but it makes for too good of a “lede” to pass up. What… Read More What’s Up With the Bike Lane Gap on Academy?

The Demise of the Hollywood Crosswalk: Why We Can’t Have Nice Things

By John Fleck This morning’s Downtown Albuquerque News documents the demise of one of Albuquerque’s pedestrian safety experiments – a new crosswalk with flashy lights adjacent to our city’s Old Town tourist mecca. The reason? It’s just too dangerous to try to get people driving automobiles to obey the law. Even with the offer of… Read More The Demise of the Hollywood Crosswalk: Why We Can’t Have Nice Things