During these days of rapid reflection and revision of thinking across all aspects of systemic racism, the Safe Routes to Schools Partnership Tuesday announced the following: For more than 15 years, Safe Routes to School programs have used the five E’s (Education, Encouragement, Enforcement, Evaluation, and Engineering) as their organizing framework. In recent years, we… Read More Safe Routes to Schools and the Enforcement “E”
Every bike ride/day/life has highs and lows. You’re riding high in April, flat tire in May. There are at least another 3.7 million trite expressions/song lyrics one could alter, but let’s just get to this morning’s photos of the best and worst from yesterday’s bike ride:
Albuquerque City Council last night unanimously passed Councilor Isaac Benton’s “Active Streets Initiative” making it possible, upon Mayor Keller’s signature (which is expected), to close some city streets temporarily to motorized traffic. As noted in yesterday’s BB post on the subject, the turn-around time from passage to possible implementation is remarkably rapid. Two weeks! Thus,… Read More Motor Traffic Street Closure Measure Passes: What Street Do You Want Fully Opened to Non-Motorized Use?
Following actions taken in a multitude of cities worldwide, Albuquerque City Councilor Isaac Benton is tonight introducing an “Active Streets Initiative,” a Resolution that, if passed, would enable the City to close some streets, actually quite a few streets as shown below, to anything but local motorized traffic, making them much more comfortably accessible by… Read More Councilor Benton Proposes Closing Selected Streets to Non-Local Motor Traffic
An email just received: Dear Scot, The effects of COVID-19 on all our communities has been tragic. Sadly, the pandemic has also adversely impacted Zagster’s business, and we regret to inform you that we will be shutting down the Pace Albuquerque bikeshare effective immediately. It has been our sincere pleasure to have you as a… Read More Zagster Shuts Down Pace Bike Share in Burque
by Emily Esterson Scrolling around the other day, I came across a picture of chocolate sourdough bread. As you already know, social media is not a good place to express one’s political opinions; however, it is a good place to get a baking idea. At the moment, I can’t think of a single other thing,… Read More Breadder Burque Ch. XII: The 100th Loaf
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