The above graphic was one of many interesting observations and ideas expressed at the #Moveequity Tweetchat held this past Wednesday. Issues of environmental and health justice are important everywhere, Burque included. One can’t help but see the figures on sidewalks and street lighting above and tie it into our discussion this week on the intersection of… Read More Solving Bike/Ped Safety Equity: Zuni Rd. S.E. as Example
Two days ago, Better Burque started a closer look at the scheduled improvements for the intersection of Coors & Blake in the South Valley. Before we wade further into the matter, readers might want to catch up with those earlier posts, but one quick way to sum up the proposed project is that it does a good-to-great… Read More Better Solutions at Coors & Blake, Finale: Fitting a New Reality
When does a highway become a street? When does a thoroughfare to somewhere else become a place to “shop-and-stroll”? Questions such as these might not seem germane when talking about the project to improve the Coors & Blake intersection and roadway immediately adjacent, and putting the term “shop-and-stroll” within the same metaphorical area code patently ludicrous.… Read More Better Solutions at Coors & Blake, Part I: What is Currently Planned
As mentioned previously here, a public meeting was held last night to discuss the upcoming project to improve the intersection of Coors Blvd. and Blake Rd. in the South Valley, and its immediate environs. Despite living only about a mile, as the crow flies, from the intersection, it’s a place I don’t come across much,… Read More Front Line Report: Trying to ride a bicycle at Blake and Coors
(See Note Below) I think that I shall never see bike infrastructure lovely as thee. I’ve seen the worst drivers of my generation careening madly, nakedly hysterical. One day *DMD finally knew what it had to do, and began, all motorists pausing, while a bike can cross all distance breathes to finally dream of safer… Read More Ode to the Bike Boulevard Diverter at Silver and Girard
Most of the road improvement action is happening in other parts of town, so it’s reassuring and exciting to see work being planned down here in the South Valley. Coors Blvd., that bane of multi-modal travel down in my neck of the woods, is scheduled for improvement, at least at the corner of Blake/Coors: This… Read More Fixing Blake and Coors: Public Meeting
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