Note: Rummaging through WordPress yesterday, I learned that there’s been 1,041 Better Burque posts since 2016. Skipping past the pretty numbing thought of how much time your humble blogger has wasted frittered away invested writing all this stuff over the years, it also occurs to me that I’ve just about never reposted any of the… Read More Best of: Burning Down the Chevy Vega

Following the low-cost trend employed by other municipalities, City of Albuquerque has resorted to pedestrian flags at new mid-block crossings, such as here at Girard and Marble between Lomas and Constitution. Before: After: In addition to crosswalk striping, a cute little sign in the middle of Girard, and triangular yellow sign/arrow, you can spot the… Read More Quentin Taratino Explains Pedestrian Flags

Been staring a bit at the endlessly fascinating counts found on MRCOG’s historic traffic flow maps for Greater Albuquerque that go back all the way to 1968. Now that enough time has passed, I thought it might be interesting to compare pre/post-Albuquerque Rapid Transit (ART) counts on Central Ave in stretches heavily altered in terms… Read More Where Did the Drivers on Central Ave. Go?

Strong candidate for Best Movie Title Ever, this perfectly Pre-Code (i.e., racy for its era) Paramount movie showed evenings at Joe Barnett’s Sunshine Theater downtown for a Great Depression 50 cents, 35 if you sat in the balcony (which never made sense to me, as it’s always better from the balcony). Barnett had ABQ’s Paramount… Read More “Merrily We Go to Hell”

One idea I’ve had toward ramping this blog back up to a daily experience would be to find and relate instances where other folks are thinking/saying/doing smarter things than I could ever come up with. Cuz that happens every day. Pretty often multiple times in a 24-hour period. Take yesterday for instance. I’m reading the… Read More Barelas Fights Drive-Thrus the Smart Way

As many of us excitedly and/or skeptically try to wrap our heads around the proposed Rail Trail, it’s perhaps helpful to look at precedence and perceived best practices. City o’ ABQ’s January 2024 document outlining current Trail thinking includes examples from two other U.S. cities: San Antonio’s Riverwalk and Indianapolis’ Cultural Trail. Celebrating its tenth… Read More ABQ Rail Trail and the Indianapolis Experience