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 We’ve a new entrant in Better Burque’s search for the least pedestrian-friendly intersection in Albuquerque. We give you the intersection of Coors and Paseo del Norte NE, which has a really nice sidewalk. Until it doesn’t. Someone actually designed that little inset curb area you see, complete with Americans With Disabilities Act-compliant… Read More Someone actually designed this
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
Update: Can report that as of this afternoon, 5/26/2020, Advantage Barricades has added a temporary protected bike lane down the left side of this bridge to separate bicyclists from oncoming cars. By John Fleck This is the heavily used and normally quite safe bike trail underpass beneath Carlisle NE, at the end of Cutler. On… Read More Day 13: detouring bikes the wrong way down a one way street
By John Fleck For some time, Google Maps has offered a mystery – out in the West Mesa sand flats of Petroglyph National Monument, the Mystique Food Truck: This is an unlikely place for a food truck. For one thing, it would be hard to get a food truck there. In addition, it would be… Read More In search of the Mystique Food Truck
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