You may not be excited to learn that NMDOT has released its draft Pedestrian Safety Plan. This possible lack of excitement is quite understandable, even if you actually do care about walking safety, perhaps to the point of reading this blog. Given the opportunity to read a “State plan,” one almost immediately considers a nap,… Read More Your Chance to Comment on State’s New Walking Safety Plan
Wanna see the easiest, quickest illustration of how economic vulnerability correlates with death/injury to those trying to walk our roads? Above is a screengrab from the (prepare yourself for some acronyms) Mid-Region Council of Governments (MRCOG) Albuquerque Area High Fatality and Injury Network (HFIN) online set of maps. As stated on the page, “this map… Read More Yes, infrastructure is a social justice issue
It’s something you’ve thought about for a long time, but never had the chance. Load the family in the Family Truckster and take a road trip that includes your very first visit to Albuquerque. As always, you’ve crammed too much fun, driving, and fun into the trip, especially this first one after the pandemic. So,… Read More Your First Visit to Albuquerque: Coors and Iliff
Heard yesterday that some long-long-long needed pedestrian improvements are currently being crafted for both the west and east sides of Coors Blvd. between Rio Bravo (NM-500) and Gun Club Rd. That good news got me remembering a little something I wrote, it turns out to have been exactly five years ago tomorrow, on one of… Read More Bit o’ Good News on Coors Blvd. Reminds Me of the Bad Times
We wrote/illustrated earlier this week the dangerous outcome of not properly following federal guidelines in placement of temporary road signs in construction zones. In other words, how fucked up it is to put road signs in the goddamn bike lane. Here’s that illustration again… Adding local oomph to those federal guidelines outlined earlier, here, deep… Read More Bicycle Lanes Are Traffic Lanes: Part II
By John Fleck tldr; Sure, Vision Zero, whatever. As long as we’ve got a traffic engineering culture that sees bike lanes as a convenient place to dump shit so that we don’t inconvenience people driving cars, we’ll never get there. Longer: We here at Better Burque love the official federal government definition of “traffic”, as… Read More Bicycle lanes are traffic lanes
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