BikeABQ News Blog
BikeABQ May Meeting
Come join us and participate in bicycle advocacy in Albuquerque and the surrounding communities! BikeABQ meets each month to discuss bike issues and events in and around Albuquerque. Learn about the latest bike projects, fun events, and ways you can help expand and improve bike facilities in our community. This month’s agenda includes, but is not limited to: ============== Reports Bike To Work Day Recap & More The meeting begins at 6:30 pm and usually ends before 8:00pm. Thanks for your continued involvement – we’re looking...
read moreBike To Work Day ABQ Info Now Available!
May 17, 2013 is the next National Bike to Work Day BikeABQ’s Bike To Work Day Event Schedule: The Albuquerque Metro Area Bike to Work Day event is designed to give commuters both information and incentive to use a bicycle or take other alternative transportation to get to work. At each stop bicycle commuters can enjoy a free breakfast from General Mills, Starbucks Coffee and Albuquerque Public Schools . In addition, reflective leg bands, patch kits and t-shirts will be given away while supplies last. This year, BikeABQ is teaming up...
read moreVolunteers Needed: Earth Day Bike Valet
BikeABQ is looking for volunteers for the Earth Day Bike Valet April 20th at the ABQ Bio Park. Sign up HERE.
read moreBikeABQ Monthly Meeting – March 26
Come join us and participate in bicycle advocacy in Albuquerque and the surrounding communities! BikeABQ meets each month to discuss bike issues and events in and around Albuquerque. Learn about the latest bike projects, fun events, and ways you can help expand and improve bike facilities in our community. This month’s agenda includes, but is not limited to: ============== Reports Upcoming Events – Bike Swap, Bike To Work Day & More The meeting begins at 6:30 pm and usually ends before 8:00pm. Thanks for your continued involvement...
read moreEmbudo Channel Bike Trail (Carlisle and Indian School) Temporary Closure
Trail closed temporarily to rehabilitate sanitary sewer manhole Pending confirmation of schedule, the Embudo Channel Bike Trail near Carlisle and Indian School will be closed from Friday, March 22, 2013 through Wednesday, March 27, 2013 so that a subcontractor, Bogan Brothers, can rehabilitate the sanitary sewer manhole located in the trail. A detour for the closure is attached. We apologize for any inconvenience and appreciate your patience. Any questions or concerns can be directed to: Patti Watson, 245-3134; 269-9691 or...
read moreEsperanza Grand Opening!
The City of Albuquerque Parks and Rec invites you to join the Grand Opening of ABQ’s Community Bike Shop
read moreBosque Trail Improvements (Bridge to South Diversion Channel)
The County’s Bosque Trail Improvements Project (Bridge to South Diversion Channel) is underway and the section from Bridge to Rio Bravo is repaved/open. Please note that there is still work going on (placing benches, sweeping, etc) so be careful through the section. The contractor is currently working on the section south of Rio Bravo. For details on closures and detours, so we are suggesting people use www.bernco.gov/bosquetrail for information. Jeanne Wolfenbarger is the project engineer and her contact information is on the...
read moreMayor Berry Unveils Ideas for Extensive Bike Paths
Viewing towers and upgraded trails could be built in the Rio Grande bosque as part of “ABQ: The Plan.” One of the city’s goals is to make the river a bigger part of residents’ day-to-day lives. (Courtesy of City of Albuquerque)Boardwalks in the bosque. A 50-mile exercise loop. More neon along Route 66. Mayor Richard Berry wants to know what the public thinks of these and similar ideas. They’re part of an initiative he calls “ABQ: The Plan,” an effort to shift more money into capital projects aimed at triggering private...
read moreOld Town Farm – Support Bike In Zoning
From OldTownFarm.com Picture this: You’re riding down the bike path away from the frenzied traffic and enjoying the great outdoors. But this isn’t a recreational ride. You’re conducting everyday business…crossing errands off your list, doing many of the things you’ve traditionally done in your car…on your bike. Along the trail you stop in at a farm shop, buy vegetables and jam and put them in one of your three baskets. Further down the path, you buy candy and flowers from a path-side vendor. Up ahead...
read moreExclusion Zones Explained
Exclusion zones, developed by Dan Gutierrez, are one of the most important concepts for successful bicycling and designing facilities which support it. Bicyclists should not be directed, by law or by design, to operate in any of these exclusion zones.
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