The key to happy transportation safety advocacy is to have a very long life. Of course, safety and staying alive go hand-in-glove, but I instead refer here to longevity in terms of how damn long roadway improvements often take. Take 12th and Menaul for instance. The Better Burque Tactical Urbanism Team (BBTUT) has in the… Read More Roundabout Letdown at 12th and Menaul
Editor’s Note: Better Burque today starts a new weekend posting tradition dedicated to things other than roadway safety and MUTCD-compliant temporary construction signage. Author Emily Esterson kicks things off with our first edition of “Breadder Burque,” an episodic personal memoir of a life increasingly, gloriously, spent baking bread. Baking is not a new obsession for… Read More Breadder Burque Chapter 1: The First Rise
By Scot Key Our last post made mention that the full extent of driver speed investigation in many cases of pedestrian fatalities consists solely of police officers asking the driver how fast they were going. Such was the case in the 2019 incident that killed Layla Zaragoza. A close review of crash and supplemental investigation… Read More Asking Drivers “How Fast Were You Going?” The Case of Angelica Baca
A huge obstacle in fulfilling the “Vision Zero” pledge signed by Albuquerque Mayor Tim Keller in May of 2019 continues to be gaps and victim blaming biases in our fatal/injury crash reporting and investigations. To reduce the number of those killed on our roadways we need solid understanding and data into what is causing these… Read More Vision Zero v. Simple Victim Blaming: The Case of Layla Zaragoza
By John Fleck Six days ago a member of the Better Burque Tactical Urbanism Team filed a report with the City of Albuquerque regarding signage failure through a construction zone on Atrisco NE. The construction, as the above BBTUT photo illustrates, collapses the northbound care lane into the normally luxuriously safe bike lane. This turns… Read More Albuquerque road sign failures endanger non-motorized people. Again.
The eternal gruesome joke goes something like this: If you wanna kill somebody and get away with it, use a car. These days the “joke” might need to be updated to reflect how many high-profile SUVs and trucks are on the road, but the seeming endless veracity that walking deaths often involve hit-and-run drivers who… Read More If You Wanna Get Away with Murder: The Case of Ronald Nez
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