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

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

Better Burque has written a large number of posts this year on the issue of pedestrian safety and deaths. If you’re interested in the subject, but missed these earlier posts, you can save a great deal of time by instead reading this simply stellar “rumination” on the subject by a team of Taproot Edmonton writers led… Read More Summing Up Pedestrian Deaths Much Better Than Better Burque

A “test” restriping of Rio Grande Blvd. from Matthew to Griegos is now in place, one designed primarily to see if a “road diet” reducing two driving lanes to one with a sizable bike lane will result in slowing down speeding drivers. And, yeah, there’s a big wide bike lane, too; however, as the KOB… Read More Rio Grande Boulevard Takes a Restriping Test