Most of the road improvement action is happening in other parts of town, so it’s reassuring and exciting to see work being planned down here in the South Valley. Coors Blvd., that bane of multi-modal travel down in my neck of the woods, is scheduled for improvement, at least at the corner of Blake/Coors: This… Read More Fixing Blake and Coors: Public Meeting
(The Guild’s Keif and Chris auction off another poster that most definitely had me thinking later: “Why the Hell didn’t I bid on that?!?”) Like any good movie, last Saturday’s Guild Cinema Poster Auction featured every one of the seven deadly sins, covetousness and gluttony prime among them. Not to be left out, there was… Read More Faster, Pussycat! Bid! Bid!: A Sinful Afternoon at the Guild Cinema Poster Auction
Better Burque has written a large number of posts this year on the issue of pedestrian safety and deaths. If you’re interested in the subject, but missed these earlier posts, you can save a great deal of time by instead reading this simply stellar “rumination” on the subject by a team of Taproot Edmonton writers led… Read More Summing Up Pedestrian Deaths Much Better Than Better Burque
We here in the deep South Valley have a big traffic change coming. After much delay and some half-ass interventions, Rio Bravo at I-25 is finally getting a complete rebuild. There’s an open house and public meeting tonight (details on a flyer below) to outline the final plan and the road closures/rerouting involved in making… Read More There Are Cycling Gaps & Then There’s…
A “test” restriping of Rio Grande Blvd. from Matthew to Griegos is now in place, one designed primarily to see if a “road diet” reducing two driving lanes to one with a sizable bike lane will result in slowing down speeding drivers. And, yeah, there’s a big wide bike lane, too; however, as the KOB… Read More Rio Grande Boulevard Takes a Restriping Test
(Photo from KRQE story) So “The Carlisle” seems imperiled, if not gone forever. It was never perfect and rubbed a great many the wrong way. Like an overzealously filled water balloon, it plopped over sidewalk space, alleys, and the sky. It had an inappropriately pretentious name intended to evoke Bobby Short singing at NYC’s… Read More Whither “The Carlisle”?
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