Hopefully Not The Last Night of the World

 With all the nuclear sabre rattling going on by Russia's Vladimir Putin, I'm getting these strange feelings I used to get during the depths of the Cold War. So to take my mind off this international disaster in progress, I took a bike ride. It had to be an easy one as I managed to strain my knee going down a steep trail in the dog park. Easy works better on one of the commuter bikes as they don't encourage me to go fast or ride hard.

A nice day, Sunday was, for an easy ride on my strained knee

On the way back, I stopped to take a couple pictures of the gigantic longitudinal gap in the sidewalk sections where you descend from St. Francis Drive at Cerrillos to the Acequia Trail underpass. I sent these pictures, below, to the city Report A Problem site. Beware of these catching a tire. I could drop a 25 x 1.5 inch tire into the gap.

Infrastructure is just one of the things the Santa Fe Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Committee works on. I'm one of the reps from District 1 but each of us tries to worry about all four districts. That means, ideally, we need people from all four Council districts on the committee. Please volunteer. Right now we are about to work on the Strategic Plan, have been writing an E-bike ordinance, among other things. But stuff doesn't do itself. 

NOTE: I got an email from the city that a work order has been initiated to fix this:

Thank you for submitting a work order to the City of Santa Fe. This email serves as a notice that your work order request has been received by the City of Santa Fe. We will send you an additional email once your work order has been resolved.  Assigned Work Order Number: 9359
Your Work Order Description: "At the sidewalk ramp that goes from the street level at St. Francis/Cerrillos intersection down to the bike-ped underpass, there is a deep longitudinal gap in the sidewalk that can cause a cyclist to crash. It looks like it was originally filled with some sort of seam filler but that has shrunken or just fallen out."
For interim status updates on work orders, please visit the Public Work Order Dashboard. 
For questions, comments, or concerns, please call Constituent Services at 505-955-6949.

Longitudinal Gap in sidewalk on ramp down to tunnel and trail

That's a 26 x 1.5 inch tire.

And hopefully, Russia and the U.S. can keep their bombs and rockets stored. We don't want this to be Armageddon, or as Bruce Cockburn once said, "The Last Night of the World"