A few weeks back, John wrote a BB piece entitled “Why Don’t They Just Do X?” discussing how seemingly irrational and incomplete public policy decisions result, in part, from the complexity of interwoven jurisdictions. In response to my piece a few days back on the dilemma of Campus Boulevard & Carlisle very near Central Avenue, an… Read More “Why Did They Do X?”

June 24, 2017: Feasts of São João Weekend walkabout, Braga, Portugal

Yesterday Better Burque discussed the continuing saga of driving, cycling and parking along Campus Boulevard in Nob Hill. Today, let’s look at the east end of Campus. Namely, here: Campus & Carlisle looking eastbound uphill. Pretty safe to say, NOBODY likes this intersection. Neither cyclists, walkers, nor drivers. Yeah, the driver of the black pickup… Read More Campus & Carlisle: If You Can’t Solve a Problem, Become a Historian

June 27, 2017: Bordeaux-Sauveterre De Guyenne Piste Cyclable as the thunderstorm finally relented, just east of the Garonne River, Bordeaux, France. Yes, moisture really does come from the sky on occasion, Albuquerque, sometimes in overabundance.

What to do about driving, cycling and car parking on Campus Boulevard? Right now (well, literally as of about six days ago when I took this photo) it looks like this: Yeah, I “redacted” the license plate number because: A. The driver of the eastbound parked car is just doing what drivers, some residents, bar… Read More The Saga of Campus Boulevard, Continued

Every job has its easy and not-so-easy components. Take teaching, for instance, a thing I know at least enough about to keep myself in trouble. Teaching the sword fight scene in “Macbeth” to 8th Graders is easy. You can teach quantum physics, epistemology and algebraic geometry to 8th Graders, as long as they get to… Read More “Macbeth” and Traffic Engineering: Copper at San Mateo