The long and short (or “wide and narrow” as you’ll read below) of Better Burque in 2020 is a fairly simple question: Why isn’t Albuquerque more safely walkable and what can we do to change that?  We are resolved in 2020 to prune our tendency to rampantly wander, yet this fairly simple question still, of… Read More First in a Very Long Series: Hindrances to Safely Walking ABQ

Albuquerque’s Sawmill District is booming to an extent found nowhere else in town, BNSF notwithstanding. New sidewalk placed along with construction of the Market and adjacent office space and apartments is abruptly interrupted so that ancient track, never to be used again, isn’t covered, fence/gate or no goddamn fence/gate. Yeah, we shoulda nationalized the U.S.… Read More Rail Tracks in Perpetuity

I’ve been avoiding ABQ’s SeeClickFix/311 the last few months, as I tend to avoid things that make me want to end my life prematurely. Few websites provide a more sobering glimpse into the bitter pettiness of humans and yawning emptiness of bureaucratic language. Nevertheless, a new year means a new attitude about things, hence I… Read More City Responses to ADA Complaints: A Prose Poem

It’s always fun to follow cases in which development alters a neighborhood. Changes along 2nd St. S.W. and around newly established Valle de Oro National Wildlife Refuge put a tourism/nature-oriented twist on development, yet with many of the same neighbor concerns that come with a shopping center or housing sub-division. Hence this sign spotted yesterday… Read More Valle de Oro and “Local Traffic Only”

With A.R.T. being blamed for everything from bad driving to halitosis in its early days of operation, Better Burque offers the following “on spec” one-page ad as part of a proposed new marketing campaign: