Life got you down, buddy? Have things got ya thinking Hamlet was right and “shuffling off this mortal coil” has gotta be better than another stinking day in this existential Hell? Well, that’s where road construction during/after photos can help. I know, we Better Burque readers are almost always telling ourselves precisely this in our… Read More Blake at Coors Construction Update: From ARGH!!! to Ahhhh…..
Councilor Isaac Benton’s proposal adding language to the City’s Traffic Code banning motor vehicles from bicycle lanes moved a step closer to final enactment at last night’s meeting of the Council’s Land Use, Planning and Zoning (LUPZ) Committee. On a 4-0 Committee vote, and with voiced endorsement by an Albuquerque Police Department representative, “O-18-14” moves… Read More Ordinance Banning Cars from ABQ Bike Lanes Moves to Full Council Vote
Last night’s meeting of the Greater Albuquerque Bicycling Advisory Committee (GABAC) featured introduction of an idea by Albuquerque City Councilor Isaac Benton advocating that downtown ABQ have a 20 mph speed limit throughout. What “throughout” means in terms of boundary (e.g., does downtown, and such a restriction, include Lead and Coal Avenues?) is at an… Read More Is 20 MPH Plenty in Downtown Burque?
If we at Better Burque are going to capture/relate every single Suddenly Ending Bike Lane (SEBL) in the area, we better get on the stick. There’s soooooooooooo many to document! Here’s the latest installment, with a slight emphasis on the Southeastern quadrant of ABQ: Got any SEBL contributions? Send ’em in… Read More Suddenly Ending Bike Lanes (SEBLs) Chapter III: Starring San Pedro (Again)
I usually avoid having “worlds collide” when it comes to Better Burque and personal cycling/walking roadway advocacy, but I make an exception with the email below to those working on the Bridge Boulevard Reconstruction Project. I do so because: A. We discussed the Project here a few days back; B. It’s a very important project… Read More Making Bridge Blvd. at Isleta Blvd. Safer: A Formal Proposal
The April 2018 monthly report from the Traffic Research Unit at UNM further confirms the 2018 trend of fewer overall traffic fatalities and higher percentages of those deaths being those trying to walk on/along/near our roadways. Meanwhile, to our immediate west, the City of Phoenix is making both regional and national headlines with its sickening… Read More Walking NM Roadways Continues to be Deadly at a Record Pace
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