Note: The Official Better Burque Staff Photographer (OBBSP) had the day off, hence below are photos of significantly lower quality than you would often find here at Better Burque, or, indeed, for that matter, anywhere on the Interwebs. Still, it’s the event that counts, right? Also, this year’s MLK March attendance, despite it being the… Read More 2018 MLK March Photo Essay

My single favorite Albuquerque event, non-motorized or otherwise, starts later this morning at 11:00. Marching, or slowly cycling, down Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard from UNM to Civic Plaza is a highlight of any year. Like any year, the reasons for the march are both generally joyous and pointedly poignant in early 2018. Moreover,… Read More See You Today at the MLK March

Continuing our periodic look at the pedestrian death crisis in our state and nation, figures for December 2017 have been released by UNM’s Traffic Research Unit. Hence, we now have a complete look at 2017, and that look continues to be gruesome: TRU having compiled and made available online data since 2006, we are able… Read More 2017 NM Pedestrian Fatalities Near Record High

One of my favorite bits of Albuquerqiana… Arenal Road just west of Isleta Boulevard, New Year’s Day, 2018   Excerpt from 1960 USGS Albuquerque map   Sunset wasn’t the only drive-in, of course. Same 1960 map, with drive-in along Broadway/NM-47 just east of the train tracks.   But that one is gone by 1990, while… Read More Vanishing or Vanished America: South Valley Drive-In Movies

Yes, at present Albuquerque Rapid Transit is nothing more than a very large metaphorical cat litter box. It stinks, and we’re all looking at each other to change it, many of us saying we didn’t want cats to begin with. There is much smell, and much shaming and blaming. Particularly of those who moved out… Read More Now is the Winter of A.R.T. Discontent

This past Sunday John and I rode out to Arenal Road Southwest, site of an upcoming City of Albuquerque road project. For those who don’t make it out there much, here’s Arenal Road (look for the red) in context: Yeah, we’re talking way down South to most Burqueans’ way of thinking. Arenal Rd. is in… Read More I Got Them Unincorporated Meets Incorporation Road Engineering Blues