PCI color-coding for area around Menaul/Alvarado (subject of future post) via ArcGIS platform mentioned below We might not have much in New Mexico when it comes to some things (e.g., manufacturing jobs, Malaysian restaurants, ethical House leadership in the Legislature), but one thing we do have, I’ve found, is a number of local government folks… Read More Taking Time to Thank Those Helping Better Burque
It’s been a while since we updated on our effort to measure the width of all the bike lanes in Albuquerque. Reasons for this are many, including slothfulness on the part of your current chronicler. The hot Summer weather also played a role, most prominently in my often using it as an excuse to be… Read More AABLE Status Report, October 5, 2016: The SW Quadrant
“Witnesses report brain matter in the roadway.” It’s the absolute very first thing I heard just the other night having renewed my unfortunate recent habit of listening to theBernalillo County Public Safety scanner. In respect for the dead, I’ll spare more detail than that, as the ‘brain matter’ had to do with yet another pedestrian… Read More Pedestrian Injuries/Deaths: We Tend to Forget They Are Human
In response to urban planner/designer Jeff Speck’s walkability analysis of downtown Albuquerque, the City has put up four-way stops along Silver and points nearby, soon to replace the existing signals. The work crudely reminds one of art installed by the environmental artist team of Christo and Jeanne-Claude. Below is a short photo essay documenting the current… Read More Downtown Burque’s Homage to Christo, Jeanne-Claude and Speck (Jeff, Not Richard)
If New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez is successful in her attempt to reinstate the death penalty, we could simplify matters by just having the condemned walk down Albuquerque’s Coors Boulevard There are evidently plenty of drivers more than happy to run people over there. You don’t even have to pay ’em. Here is yesterday’s press… Read More Another Day, Another Dead Pedestrian on Coors Boulevard
Before taking a not-very-well-deserved break, BB wrote of a bike ride which included a jaunt down General Chennault N.E., a newly discovered “Yellow Brick Road” of cycling wonderfulness connecting Zuni Rd. and, basically, the rest of Albuquerque from a safer cycling perspective. I gushed about the good General’s road with extreme gushiosity, including a call for it… Read More In Which Better Burque Profoundly Changes the World
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