That time Albuquerque had a fully protected bike lane
Sometimes I write stuff over at Better Burque.
Archive of posts filed under the cycling category.
Crossing Interstate 25
I’ve a piece up at Better Burque about our adventures today trying to find a way to cross the interstate on our bicycles. Don’t try this kids, we’re professionals. No, not professionals, dangerous amateurs.
Albuquerque loves its art
#geographybybike
I rode a lot this year – for transportation, exercise, and fun. And I GPS all my rides, because FUN! Here are the year’s rides in and around central Albuquerque.
“Sleep is our business.”
From the morning bike ride. “Sleep is our business,” and has been for some time. All-you-can-eat sushi and Korean barbecue came later.
the forever bus route construction
I wrote a thing at Better Burque about pedestrian safety.
Will an informal norm work here, or do I need a city permit for my amplified event?
Wandering the neighborhood on this morning’s bike ride, I ran across this sign: I’m reading Robert Ellickson’s 1991 book Order without Law: How Neighbors Settle Disputes. It’s a fascinating bit of legal scholarship about how residents of Shasta County, in California, manage the problems posed by cattle wandering off the ranch and onto other folks’ …
The Glenwood Canyon bike path
In Glenwood Springs this weekend, a friend kindly acceded to my demand: “We must go on a Sunday morning bike ride up Glenwood Canyon.” It’s 16 miles of paved trail that run along the Colorado River. Like, right along the Colorado River, as you can see in the picture above. So close, in fact, that …
“I just found this route a couple weeks ago….”
One of the great joys of bicycling socially is route sharing. Albuquerque is a great bicycling city. We’ve got a nice network of trails that are completely separated from streets, including one along the Rio Grande that runs the whole length of the metro area. We’re seeing more and more facilities on the streets as …
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six crossings of the Rio Grande
The Rio Grande through Albuquerque has been rising this week, thanks to a combination of a great snowpack and a quirk in the river’s operating rules. The snowpack part is obvious – it’s big and melting fast – the rule quirk less so. Under Article VII of the Rio Grande Compact, we cannot store water …