I’m generally always one to look at the bright side of life while riding a bicycle, and it was with this cheerful mindset that I took this photo at UNM last Wednesday around 10:00 A.M. It was only when I got home as the post-bike ride glow waned that I noticed in the photo background…… Read More History and Why Crossing Lomas Getting to UNM Sucks

Return with us now to the thrilling multi-modal roadway infrastructural days of 1987. “What?!?” you may be asking in an exclamatory manner. You may also be adding, perhaps unnecessarily, “Isn’t 1987 and thereabouts pretty much the cause of all that sucks regarding multi-modal infrastructure in this country?” Yes, you would be generally correct in that… Read More Visiting the West Side’s Secret Alleys

Most of my bike riding these days is urban ABQ, and most of that is on residential streets. But every once in a weekday while (yes, retirement is a good thing, I’d recommend it to everybody) I stretch out on the Bosque Path, NDC and connecting PdN for an up-and-back amounting to a 56-mile of… Read More Weekday Mornings on the Bosque & NDC Paths

When I say the words “Rio Rancho” to you, committed multi-modal urbanist planning advocate and Better Burque reader, your first reaction probably involves an uncontrollable itching, ringing in the ears, and involuntary esophageal response. Rio Rancho is the veritable “Don’t Bee” in the Romper Room of multi-modal urbanist planning. So imagine my surprise yesterday, when… Read More City of Rio Rancho is Better than City of ABQ: Discuss

In addition to this day, August 28, 2023, being the first day of the rest of your life (enjoy!), it’s also the first day of Better Burque finally getting to its stated and oft-procrastinated plan to put together a low-stress cycling network in this here town. I hate those pharmaceutical ads with thirty seconds of… Read More Our First Low Stress Network Candidate

It’s the little things. Back in 2007, crossing University Blvd. at Silver SE above via any means of transport other than a car/truck/SUV was a death-defying mid-block attempt just like any such stroad crossing in town. Then that changed. By 2011, the simple, relatively cheap, raised median/diverter with walker/roller gap above had been installed as… Read More Ode to Raised Medians/Diverters