I’ve been avoiding ABQ’s SeeClickFix/311 the last few months, as I tend to avoid things that make me want to end my life prematurely. Few websites provide a more sobering glimpse into the bitter pettiness of humans and yawning emptiness of bureaucratic language. Nevertheless, a new year means a new attitude about things, hence I… Read More City Responses to ADA Complaints: A Prose Poem

It’s always fun to follow cases in which development alters a neighborhood. Changes along 2nd St. S.W. and around newly established Valle de Oro National Wildlife Refuge put a tourism/nature-oriented twist on development, yet with many of the same neighbor concerns that come with a shopping center or housing sub-division. Hence this sign spotted yesterday… Read More Valle de Oro and “Local Traffic Only”

With A.R.T. being blamed for everything from bad driving to halitosis in its early days of operation, Better Burque offers the following “on spec” one-page ad as part of a proposed new marketing campaign:

Morning: Pop Quiz, ABQ Cyclists and Walkers)! Have you ever stood with/without your bike, very straight, trying to be as thin as possible on this tiny strip of red brick while drivers zoomed by in all directions, including those using the turn lane scooped into the little strip of red brick? Do you know where… Read More Another Proposed Solution to Yet Another Scary Problem

Sleepy La Vega Dr. S.W. in the historically significant South Valley continues its transformation from quiet, semi-rural street paralleling the River and Isleta Blvd. to modern scene of urban infrastructure and in-fill. First, it recently became an *official “Bike Route.” Now this: The slow and in some places quicker transformation of the South Valley is… Read More Proposed Religion-Oriented Development in South Valley