By Scot Key Relative to our “flash poll” yesterday regarding the new road striping on Girard between Lomas and Indian School, here’s a recent photo taken by occasional Better Burque contributor John Fleck looking northbound on Girard just south of Frontier Ave. (just north of Jefferson Middle School): Ouch. Since this photo first appeared, there’s… Read More Looking Closer at that Ugly Girard Blvd. “Bike Lane”

Road tires be damned, I rode my very road-bike Colnago out on the under-construction section of I-40 Trail Western Extension between Unser and Arroyo Vista (AKA: 98th St.) yesterday. Here we are coming up to the new AMAFCA “Volcano” just east of Arroyo Vista. Just enough grip here to ride the Colgi without too much… Read More Very Short Tour of the I-40 Trail Western Extension

Girard North of Lomas: 4 ft. bike lane and skinny “door zone” buffer between bike lane and parking lane on one side of the street, and… bike lane so skinny the bike lane stencil doesn’t fit (ranging from 32 to 36 inches) on the other side of the street.   OR Girard South of Central… Read More Girard Flash Poll: Which Do You Like More (Dislike Least)?

As we continue our look at how to best connect the Silver Bike Boulevard in its shiny, new iteration from Carlisle to Yale with downtown and on to the Rio Grande, let’s shift away from the audacity of Solution #1: tunneling, boring and bridging our way through I-25 and the Alvarado Transportation Center, and tackle the… Read More Rethinking Silver BB, Solution #2: Curb-Protected Lead Blvd.

As we roll around ideas on how to best improve the Silver Bike Boulevard west of Yale to the Rio Grande, we first have to deal with the 75,000,000 ton (approx.) elephant in the path: Interstate 25. It’s a big, wide, ugly-ass elephant. Looking closer, we also see it’s convoluted: That’s four different road surfaces,… Read More Rethinking Silver BB, Solution #1: Blasting a Tunnel

Views on Google’s perhaps nefarious impact on our world and private lives aside, I really get a kick of playing around with Street View’s compiled visual history. For instance, you can look at the ABQ intersection of MLK and Locust (at I-25) from this past January , all the way back to 2011. Here we’re… Read More Completing the Job: Rethinking Silver BB, Yale to the Rio Grande