Bad news, everybody. My current, and hopefully last ever, attempt at gainful employment ends this week. That means your inbox, or where/however you receive Better Burque, is about to receive pretty much daily missives from this blog. As personal employment still continues to linger like a bad case of Covid this week, I’m just posting… Read More How Best to Ding Dangerous Vehicle Types?

By John Fleck This morning’s Downtown Albuquerque News documents the demise of one of Albuquerque’s pedestrian safety experiments – a new crosswalk with flashy lights adjacent to our city’s Old Town tourist mecca. The reason? It’s just too dangerous to try to get people driving automobiles to obey the law. Even with the offer of… Read More The Demise of the Hollywood Crosswalk: Why We Can’t Have Nice Things

Having had a touch of that infectious disease you might have heard about the last couple of years, my cycling has taken a tumble, more like a free-fall in the last couple of weeks: TRIMP is a measure for some complicated biometrics that I sum up as “Doing Stuff,” which is to say I haven’t… Read More Recovery Graph

Currently the City and folks that try to think for the City are trying to figure out whether ebikes with a throttle should be allowed on multi-use paths. The need for that decision goes back to the “class system” established for ebikes in this country. Cities/other governmental units and those that try to think for… Read More Ebikes, Throttles, and Freedom

Question came up last week on best route from Downtown to the current terminus of the Alameda Drain Trail at 4th and the end of Matthew. Riding buddy John and took this route from 4th and Gold yesterday which I can’t seem to save properly in Strava, so I’ll just screen grab it here: In… Read More Low Stress Cycling Downtown to Alameda Drain Trail

Question: What’s the longest continuous stretch of ABQ cycling roadway infrastructure that is truly LTS 1 or 2? I raise the question after recently posting this photo of the brand-spanking new Woodward Blvd. eastbound as it rises to meet I-25 That wide, solid (apparently) concrete “Jersey Barrier” separating cyclist from driver (along with cushioning metal… Read More Cycling Safety Mantra: It’s Great Until It’s Not