The first, relatively low-hanging fruit of the ambitious ABQ Rail Trail project is ready for your non-motorized use. It’s also for motorists, but there’s a delightful lack of driver access relative to those not in two-ton boxes, including the chance to grab a cup of coffee and shimmy through the “Marquette Notch” to/from 2nd Street:… Read More That New Marquette Street Level Train Crossing
Let’s start with a Albuquerque Rapid Transit reference, because any A.R.T. reference gets clicks. Particularly when the word “hate” is included somewhere in the reference. I’ve noticed this. So here’s why I hate A.R.T.: I get motion sickness on the A.R.T. bus. I really, really, really want to love A.R.T. and I do love the… Read More Here’s What is Really Wrong with A.R.T.
Greater Albuquerque Active Transportation Committee (GAATC), the area’s melded government board/commission advising on non-motorized transport matters, is meeting virtually next Monday, the 11th at 4:00 PM to discuss the following (expertly copy/pasted from the agenda): Discussion / Action Items– Gabaldon Rd NW & I-40 Trail safety concerns (motion at May 9, 2022 meeting tokeep this… Read More Active Transportation (that’s you, cyclists, walkers, rollers) Meeting Next Monday
Enjoying June on a long-delayed bicycle tour visit to beloved Northern Portugal with a side trip to Spanish Galicia. Here’s a few pics; little prose, just captions.
Looking back at edition #2 of our gamification of nonexistent ABQ wayfinding signage… several readers correctly responded that this is along Aspen NW, a bit west of Rio Grande Blvd (a bit south of I-40). These readers also correctly added that if one is alive to take this photo they obviously have either lived crossing… Read More Answer to Mystery Cycle Route #2 and All Our Problems
Here’s how it works, cyclists (everybody): BB takes photos, or steals screengrabs from Google Streetview, and you try to unravel two mysteries: Location of the mystery site; and, Approximately how infinitely safer it would be to cycle/walk through this car-centric hellscape, IF a wayfinding sign or three was posted to help new users find the… Read More Play Mystery Cycle Route #3: Transit Stop Edition
