The confluence of two issues as controversial as bike lanes and gentrification is bound to heighten the emotional and largely ignores the merely analytical. On top of that, questions such as to whether bike lane placement is based on class/race and if bike lane placement leads to negative impacts of gentrification are damn hard questions to scientifically… Read More Does Burque Bike Lane Placement Reflect/Create Gentrification?
Two days back, Better Burque passed along the Journal story concerning a public meeting held on proposed improvements of NM-550 from NM-313 to NM-528. Contact with NMDOT has provided a website for the project, one which includes a PowerPoint presented at the February 18th public meeting. Here are cross-sections from that presentation of how 550… Read More Update: NM-550 Improvements Through Bernalillo
A public meeting will be held tonight at Mountain View Community Center, 201 Prosperity Ave. S.E., in Albuquerque’s South Valley to discuss bike/ped and motoring improvements between the southern extension of the Paseo del Bosque Trail (aka: Bosque Path) and the newly established Valle del Oro Wildlife Refuge. Currently, 2nd St. which connects the two,… Read More Public Meeting Tonight: Connecting Bosque Path to Valle del Oro
Saving some commentary and perhaps even the occasional “fact,” for a post coming tomorrow at Duke City Fix, the single entity that is currently “Better Burque” completed the quest to visit every ABQ brewpub yesterday. Relative to Part I’s rather massive arc of northern and eastern areas of our fair city, Part II was a… Read More Burque Mega-Brewpub Crawl: Final Report (Sorta)
A critical safety gap for long-distance cycling might be remedied as a by-product of the redesign of U.S. 550 through Bernalillo. Included in the project, as reported by Rick Nathanson at the Journal, is a new Rio Grande bridge, one that will include a bike/ped walkway. Other details, such as whether the renovated stretch running… Read More Today in News for Wombats (Cyclists): NM-550 Redesign in Bernalillo
Dear and wonderful readers here know I was unsuccessful in my attempt to visit every brewpub in Albuquerque last weekend. Thwarted by goatheads and my own stupidity (one of my most consistent traits), I ended up at brewpub #16: Sidetrack Brewing with a flat tire and a pint of cask-conditioned pale ale waiting for a… Read More Burque Mega-Bike Crawl III: Cue Tubthumping
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