The Better Burque Tactical Urbanism Team (BBTUT) this past weekend had another chance to help City of Albuquerque turn an improperly placed “Road Work Ahead” sign into an ever-so-brief physically-separated bike lane. Before: After A perusal of the area around Central, Tingley Rd., and the Bio-Park parking lot showed four “Road Work Ahead” signs alerting… Read More This Weekend in Burque Tactical Urbanism
The semi-official Better Burque Sunday Bike Ride (BBSBR) this morning focused on two streets we BBSBRs have recently discovered down in my “neck of the woods” in the South Valley. Yesterday, Saturday, while pretending to ride to the “Tiny Houses” public meeting at 82nd and Central (I didn’t quite make it), I came across a… Read More Two Cycling Southwest Passages: Foothill SW & La Vega SW
Had a great bike ride in “my” South Valley (home since 2000) this morning that included a stop for this… Here’s a bit of info on this mural that went up back in 2014. It’s right next to the South Valley Skate Park (you might hear some “grinding” off-camera in the video above), new iteration… Read More Murals of Burque: La Corriente del Valle
We at Better Burque became aware of “los muros de burque“ about a month ago, and, ever since, grand proclamations have been proclaimed by BB staff that we will “ride our bicycle to every single mural on the los muros website in a single day.” You know, a quest. A pointless gesture in that “I… Read More Riding/Taking the Missing Mural Challenge
The focus in the news stories is on the City changing its mind, but the more meaningful “story” concerning reinstallation of stop signs at Coal and 8th/Roma and 4th/5th downtown is that significant attention is being paid to making roadway usage safer, instead of simply focusing on getting drivers from one place to another as… Read More Humans are Whiny: News at 11
Following the generally popular improvements to the Silver Bike Boulevard west from Monroe (Highland HS) to Yale Blvd., the bicycle community now faces an even greater challenge further westward. How do we make it safe, truly safe, to ride a bicycle across I-25 and over the railroad tracks? And what about Downtown? All the way… Read More Carving a Safe UNM to Rio Grande Bike Riding Passage
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