Beginning a new chapter in the sweeping saga that is Better Burque, here is our very first home movie. We start with a very short film of the very short cycle-track on Rancho Seco between Central and Lomas. One added benefit from viewing the film is the chance to hear your humble blogger as his… Read More BB Film #1: Cycle-track on Rancho Seco
Continuing BB’s long look at suddenly disappearing and substandard bike lanes around Albuquerque, the street really deserving the Oscar, Grammy, Nobel, and Pulitzer of really bad lanes is Candelaria Road. While Candelaria “shines” in this regard over just about all of its wide expanse, stretching from the Nature Center at the Rio Grande River to… Read More “Winning” the Substandard Bike Lane Sweepstakes: Candelaria Rd. N.W.
Do you get sick and tired of seeing tweets like this: APD and AFD are enroute to an accident at Ash and Martin Luther King @abqfire — Albuquerque Police (@ABQPOLICE) May 1, 2018 – And have you ever ridden a bicycle up the steeper parts of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard from downtown… Read More NUMTOT Reverie on What MLK Blvd Could Be
The most recent person to die trying to navigate our streets via something other than a motor vehicle was a person using a wheelchair trying to get somewhere and live early this morning on Coors Blvd. between Central Ave. and Bluewater NW. As is true in almost 100% of these instances, we know almost nothing… Read More New Month, New Death on Albuquerque Streets
I’m putting together an online scrapbook. Not being much of a “scrapbooker,” I only hazily seem to understand their purpose. Something along the lines of bringing together photos and other visuals commemorating fond memories into a single bound object. This is not that kind of scrapbook. Instead, below is a start toward a Burque collection… Read More “Great” Suddenly Ending Bike Lanes: Collect Them All!
Each of us have strengths and weaknesses. For example, I have an almost preternatural ability to spot plagiarism in an 8th Grader’s essay, but have zero visual intelligence when it comes to roadway schematics, drawings, renderings, you name it. To wit: I stare and stare, but, in looking at the proposed intersection of Bridge Blvd.… Read More Calling All Roadway Experts: Fix this Proposed Intersection
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