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
Had my first chance to ride the new underpass “notch” along the North Diversion Channel Trail (NDC) at Indian School NE this afternoon. Years in the making (many) and opened a few weeks ago, the notch completes a series of underpasses making it possible for walkers/riders/rollers to go miles and miles from El Pueblo/Paseo del… Read More Another Benefit of That New NDC Notch at Indian School NE
As part of the generally low-cost safety improvements announced yesterday by Mayor Keller at/near school crossings, perhaps the best and least expensive will be initiating “Leading Pedestrian Interval” signal timing at many such crossings. What’s that? Or if you’re an English teacher: What are those? As explained in this spiffy explanation from the National Association… Read More What’s a “Leading Pedestrian Interval”?
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