Got a note from the folks at the los muros de burque mural mapping website, as noted a few days back. They tell me/us to keep the mural sightings coming! Here’s an excerpt of my latest submission… Happy hunting!
Readers will recall a post last week detailing why you’re not triggering that red light while on your bicycle, and what can be done about it. Fixing the situation involves interaction, within Albuquerque city limits, with “311” and/or “SeeClickFix.” As getting comfortable with any new “app” or website always has a learning curve, BB will… Read More Bike Sensor Adjustment Project (BSAP): Using SeeClickFix Lesson #1
After suffering the necessary short-term pain for long-term gain, South Valley residents (and bicycle riders) are now enjoying the completion of Phase I of the Barcelona Road Storm Drain Project (proving again that there are no roadway projects in the SV, only “storm drain projects”). Don’t ya love photos of new bike lane striping? Well,… Read More Stretch of Barcelona Road Gets Bike Lanes For 1st Time
The Better Burque Tactical Urbanism Team (BBTUT) this past weekend had another chance to help City of Albuquerque turn an improperly placed “Road Work Ahead” sign into an ever-so-brief physically-separated bike lane. Before: After A perusal of the area around Central, Tingley Rd., and the Bio-Park parking lot showed four “Road Work Ahead” signs alerting… Read More This Weekend in Burque Tactical Urbanism
The semi-official Better Burque Sunday Bike Ride (BBSBR) this morning focused on two streets we BBSBRs have recently discovered down in my “neck of the woods” in the South Valley. Yesterday, Saturday, while pretending to ride to the “Tiny Houses” public meeting at 82nd and Central (I didn’t quite make it), I came across a… Read More Two Cycling Southwest Passages: Foothill SW & La Vega SW
Had a great bike ride in “my” South Valley (home since 2000) this morning that included a stop for this… Here’s a bit of info on this mural that went up back in 2014. It’s right next to the South Valley Skate Park (you might hear some “grinding” off-camera in the video above), new iteration… Read More Murals of Burque: La Corriente del Valle
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