(Note: This post may be too graphic and disturbing for some readers. Consideration of this advised.) Better Burque continues to comb through APD crash reports and investigations for those killed walking our roadways in 2017 and 2018. As you can easily imagine, these reports are filled with grisly details and somber humanity. We’ll be writing… Read More Mini-Walking Fatality Story: The “‘Barf’ Green Pickup”

Not much to add to yesterday’s KOB-TV story from reporter Ryan Laughlin on Mayor’s Keller decision to reestablish a better feedback loop for citizens in reporting problems via 311/SeeClickFix. We mention the story here as BB has been gently, lovingly ranting about the problem for months. In response to 2018 Albuquerque Progress Report survey findings… Read More Mayor Keller Now Wants to Fix 311

§ 8-2-3-6  PEDESTRIAN IN CROSSWALK.    (A)   In the absence of operating traffic controls at an intersection, the operator of a bicycle or vehicle shall slow down or stop to yield the right-of-way to a pedestrian in a marked or unmarked crosswalk.  However, no pedestrian shall suddenly leave a curb or other place of safety and walk or run into the… Read More Why Don’t You Walk More?

I had the chance to ride up the Paseo de las Montanas multi-use path late last week to personally check out one of the motion-detection flashing systems along this trail we’ve been writing about. Above we see the Wyoming crossing “in action” as a woman and her dog wait in the media refuge. There was… Read More Even More on Motion-Detection Crossings in NE Heights

Preliminary numbers are in from UNM’s Traffic Research Unit on 2018 roadway deaths, with 83 identified deaths to those walking NM roadways last year. Here is a month-by-month breakdown from TRU: The numbers continue to show the relentless trend of record/near record deaths to pedestrians, in particular higher percentages of walkers killed in relation to… Read More Unofficial Total of NM Walking Fatalities for 2018: 83

Following up on yesterday’s post on the 2017 walking fatality case at Juan Tabo and the Paseo de las Montanas multi-use path (between Menaul and Candelaria), I found this 2007 Albuquerque Journal story via pressreader on installation of the motion-detection flashing light systems placed at this and several other path/busy road intersections in Burque’s Northeast… Read More More on Those Motion-Detection Lights on Juan Tabo Boulevard