Update 8.16.23 Having seen this announcement yesterday from the U.S. Department of Transportation: BB humbly submits the following as a damn good proposal for this grant program originally scrawled back in 2018… Here’s something great I’ve learned about retirement; something nobody ever told me prior to me hanging up the chalk, so to speak. You know… Read More Let’s Build a Walk/Cycle Bridge Over I-25 at Silver Avenue
Perhaps, while cycling or walking along the junkyards, you’ve seen the hefty hollow metal pole that goes for a bollard as the Chavez Loop extension of the Bosque Path crosses Prosperity Avenue in the deep South Valley: As many have pointed out, the bollard doesn’t look like any other multi-use path bollards around town. It’s too… Read More BB Tactical Urbanism Team Gets Frisky on Chavez Loop
Giddy, perhaps irrationally so (is there “rational giddiness”?), with the success of our Bike Sensor Adjustment Project (BSAP), Better Burque has plunged toward correction of that veritable Unholy Grail of traffic intersections: Edith Blvd. at Lomas. Raise your hands, cyclists, drivers, and walkers, if you’ve ever had to stew a few minutes here: Lined with… Read More BSAP Waits for Godot: The Light at Edith and Lomas
The latest in the “Road Work Ahead” sign saga has the City and its contractor making excellent lemonade out of, temporary, lemons. We pointed out the unfortunate placement of the sign above in an earlier post, and our 311/SeeClickFix experience in another. Now we see the sign adroitly deposited in a safe place. And with… Read More A.R.T., or Lack of it, Continues to Solve City Problems
It’s not clear why, but the photo above reflects the end result of a driver and her 8-year-old son hurtling through the intersection of Yale and Gibson Blvd. Tuesday night. There’s also been no update on the condition of the boy, at least I haven’t spotted one, who was listed in critical condition as of… Read More A Photo for us to Remember
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