After having postponed action through its March meetings, Albuquerque City Council will meet next Monday, April 1st for final Council action on the City’s 2019 Two-year Capital Budget. Here’s the meeting agenda. And here is a revealing breakdown of request proposals for Department of Municipal Development Streets authorizations throughout the proposal and approval process. One could… Read More ABQ City Council to Act on 2019 Budget at Monday Meeting

The walking danger of Coors Boulevard, particularly Coors at/near Rio Bravo Boulevard, received its 15 minutes of media infamy (actually just under six) in a piece by KOB’s Chris Ramirez and crew that aired last night. The story has a solid outlining of Coors walking deaths, and comments that both encourage and discourage from BernCo… Read More KOB-TV Looks at Walking Deaths Along Coors Boulevard

The more jaded and cynical among us might point out the ludicrously small amount of space “here to corner” in this photo taken last evening at the intersection of Spruce and Silver. Far more important and less cynically, note the brand-new stop sign on Spruce, making Spruce/Silver a four-way stop, and thus making the Silver… Read More The Two Ways to Look at Spruce/Silver Signage

The Better Burque Tactical Urbanism Team (BBTUT) wandered by bicycle through the goathead-infested railways, overly-abundant parking lots, and AMAFCA ditches and wetlands that make up the immediate south of the infamous BNSF tracks that cross El Pueblo Rd. NE, the tracks that have caused untold injury and mayhem to cyclists for decades. We risked flat… Read More Carving an El Pueblo NE “Northwest Passage”

The title of this blog is “Better Burque,” for better or worse, and if asked what single improvement would most make Burque Better in my opinion (and thanks for asking), it would be this: Make the bus service not suck nearly as bad as it does Or put in more polite language and tighter prose:… Read More The Wheels on ABQ Buses Don’t Go ‘Round Here