By Scot As mentioned earlier this week, I made a rare public excursion from the BB Cave and mingled with quite a few folks who were kind enough to show up for the Bike ABQ “Meet & Greet” this past Tuesday. While turnout wasn’t quite as high as the first such event some months back,… Read More What I Learned at the Bike ABQ “Meet & Greet”

Back in November BB wrote about the “dark” light signal at Coors Boulevard and Las Estancias in the far South Valley, a intersection signal that has been installed for years now, but was still not in operation. In the parlance, the light had not been officially shown to be “warranted” through traffic study, as actual/potential… Read More Now Will the Light Get Turned On at Coors & Las Estancias?

Do you very much like to ride a bicycle, yet also very much dislike anything called a “meet and greet”? Maybe you like to ride your bicycle solo around Albuquerque, in part, because of the isolation and separation it creates between you and everybody you’d rather not “meet” and “greet.” I bring up the interrelatedness… Read More Come, Standing Over Way Off in the Corner, to the Bike ABQ “Meet and Greet”

by Scot  “Democracy is the worst form of government except for all those others that have been tried.” Some form of the “quote” above has been attributed to Ben Franklin, Winston Churchill and, usually muttered under one’s breath, to anyone who has ever attended a road project public meeting. Or maybe just by me when attending them. I… Read More What I Was Too Cowardly to Say at Last Night’s Public Meeting

About once every other month I ride up the Gail Ryba Bridge from the Bosque Trail to get west of the River and out into some points on the Westside. When I do, I try to remember to take a picture of this: I could make this a photo contest in which you have to… Read More Low Hanging Gravel: Let’s Fix the Walmart Truck Strip

By Scot Key Admittedly, no Better Burque reader has directly asked me, or anyone I know, if they should hate ART now. For one thing, folks are capable of determining their own opinion, particularly on this issue, without asking Better Burque for advice. Photo: John Fleck I invent the question this morning based on where… Read More BB Readers Ask: Should I Hate Albuquerque Rapid Transit Now?