People are driving less locally and around the world these days, but you wouldn’t know it from looking at the number of those killed trying to walk New Mexico roadways last month. Here’s a category breakdown of such fatalities from the Traffic Research Unit: Having tracked these figures for quite some time, month of March… Read More March NM Walking Deaths Soar Despite Driving Dip
Editor’s Note: In-house bread baking has become such an isolation/social-distancing phenomenon that Stephen Fry has added it to the 1,000,000 things he already does: My first attempt at sourdough bread is cooling… took five days to prepare and feed the active starter. The loaf has certainly risen – we’ll have to see how it tastes…… Read More Breadder Burque Chapter VI: Sharing the Love
Readers will recall the Better Burque Tactical Urbanism Team’s (BBTUT) action last week to better reposition an ill-considered “Road Work Ahead” sign sitting square in the bike lane on Atrisco NW. As part of that action, a 311/SeeClickFix report was filed. Below is the actual, unaltered thread of communication between Scot at BB and 311/SCF.… Read More In These Kafkaesque Times, Nobody Out-Kafkas CABQ’s 311/SeeClickFix
by Emily Esterson Editor’s Note: As I write this note, Ms. Esterson is driving across town to get some of the scant pounds of flour currently left anywhere in Albuquerque. You can find prior chapters of Breadder Burque right here and here and here. Sometimes you have to tear things down to start over. For… Read More Breadder Burque Chapter V: Making the Grade
Apologies for their bracing and indelicate nature, but Better Burque has long urged a two-prong mantra toward greater roadway safety in our city: Drive Less Slow the fuck down So far, the pandemic and resulting alterations to our daily life are proving quite helpful in at least temporarily achieving the former and performing horribly at… Read More Roadway Safety and Pandemics: Good or Bad?
Feeling a bit helpless these days? Psychologically adrift, unmoored by circumstances and actions hopelessly beyond our individual ability to even grasp, much less control? I hear you, buddy. But there are small things we can do to help us feel at least a tiny bit empowered in setting this wayward Earthship back into some harbor… Read More Tactical Urbanism, Pandemic Edition
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