Skill, in the best sense, is the enactment or the acknowledgement or signature of responsibility to other lives; it is the practical understanding of value. --Wendell Berry, "The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture" Eating and moving our bodies are…
Category: Safety
Expanding the cycling movement
The bike movement, which was accustomed to being a little movement, hasn't necessarily figured out how to be a part of the broader landscape of social change. --"Bike Advocacy's Blind Spot" Southwest Bike Initiative is about increasing and expanding the…
Protecting people on our streets
...pedestrians are 2-3 times more likely to suffer a fatality when struck by an SUV or pickup truck than when struck by a passenger car...The higher risk of fatality associated with being struck by an SUV or pickup also applies…
Creating a national bicycling policy
Here is my superstition: When you focus on creating more good things, you get more good things; When you focus on solving problems, you get more problems. --Jing Zhang, May ITE Journal, "member to member" As we develop a national…
Cycling for kids: Strider Bikes and Specialized Foundation
What will this do to our community? --Wendell Berry quoting the Amish in The Sun Magazine, August 2017 Imagine if we made cycling accessible for everyone, from the moment we could walk to our last steps on this earth? Strider…
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An app for safer driving
Brad Cordova, a 27 year old from Belen, New Mexico, has developed a phone app designed to improve driving behavior. It is called TrueMotion, and uses smartphone data and analytics to provide objective feedback to drivers on how they are…
How we think about transportation
"There is no question that conditions for bicycling and walking need to be improved in every community in the United States; it is no longer acceptable...that two desirable and efficient modes of travel have been made difficult and uncomfortable." --FHWA's…
Bike Safety Table at Family Health Fair
I staffed Albuquerque's bike safety table at a family health fair today. Talking bikes and healthy hearts to motivated people was a good way to start Saturday morning. The fair was hosted by the New Mexico Heart Institute on Johnson Field at the University of…
Vision Zero
This is the excerpt for your very first post.
Southwest Bike Initiative 