While Albuquerque City Council prepares to discuss an update to the City’s Complete Streets Ordinance, and amid all the insanity and horror of a reality show presidency, U.S. Senator Ed Markey (MA) and Representative Steve Cohen (TN) yesterday introduced the “Complete Streets Act of 2019” as a federal attempt to do the following: States would be… Read More Federal “Complete Streets Act of 2019” Proposed

I think the statute of limitations for bad narrating has now expired. Your humble blogger participated in the following series of 60-second videos entitled “Walking in ABQ” back in April. I have now finally been able to stomach watching them, and as the joke goes: “We’ve suffered for our art, now it’s your turn.” Huge… Read More Today’s Three Minutes of Your Life You’ll Never Get Back

Yesterday it was a contest, but, more importantly, pretty soon it will be in place. Having recently heard some information about installation of a HAWK signal at Central Avenue and Texas Street, BB held a “guess the location” game yesterday. Big thanks to those who participated here and via FB/Twitter, and congrats on the “winners”… Read More How/Why That HAWK Signal is Being Installed at Central Ave. and Texas St.

More details tomorrow here at BB, but, in the meantime, can you identify this highly trafficked, heavily walked intersection now scheduled for a “High-intensity Activated crossWalK, aka “HAWK,” signal? You know, like the ones along the A.R.T. Route and, somewhat infamously, at Lomas and Alvarado? Guess correctly first and win! Disclaimers: Incredible cash prizes do… Read More Let’s Play: Name the Location Getting a New HAWK Signal!

We gotta fix the big things. Absolutely gotta. But we also gotta fix the small things and we also gotta acknowledge when they get fixed. Right at a month ago, a friend of Better Burque passed along a photo of a curb median inexplicably installed directly in the path of the extremely popular North Diversion… Read More Changing the World One Curb Median at a Time

BB posts with photos of murals are both popular and keep Scot from going on and on about sidewalks and bike lanes. Perhaps the latter is the biggest reason for the popularity. Nah, it’s the artwork; vibrant visual reminders that we live in a great town full of creativity. Here’s a detail (i.e., I can’t… Read More More Good Visual News: Tortuga Gallery