By John Fleck The Better Burque Tactical Urbanism Team (BBTUT) rode out this morning to check out the New Mexico Department of Transportation’s new “I25 Improved” freeway reconstruction project. We* are excited about the promised “barrier-separated shared-use paths for pedestrians and cyclists” when the project is completed in (check’s web site claim) 2027! We** are… Read More Albuquerque’s interstate, “improved”

By John Fleck This morning’s Downtown Albuquerque News documents the demise of one of Albuquerque’s pedestrian safety experiments – a new crosswalk with flashy lights adjacent to our city’s Old Town tourist mecca. The reason? It’s just too dangerous to try to get people driving automobiles to obey the law. Even with the offer of… Read More The Demise of the Hollywood Crosswalk: Why We Can’t Have Nice Things

When last we saw the Big Sandies valiantly trying to hold the line against what we believe to be a green Corolla, the advantage seemed to lie with the Corolla. But Big Sandies are not called Big Sandies for nothing. (Actually they are called Big Sandies, we think, because they are big and filled with… Read More Big Sandies calls in the reinforcements

When planters were not enough to deter drivers of large destructive machines from cutting through the back way from Albuquerque’s El Vado development to New York Ave. (see back story), we have turned to a traffic deterrent known as “Big Sandy”. They are big, and appear to be full of sand. The best part is… Read More “Big Sandy” at the New York/El Vado junction

By John Fleck tldr; Sure, Vision Zero, whatever. As long as we’ve got a traffic engineering culture that sees bike lanes as a convenient place to dump shit so that we don’t inconvenience people driving cars, we’ll never get there. Longer: We here at Better Burque love the official federal government definition of “traffic”, as… Read More Bicycle lanes are traffic lanes