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

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

We at Better Burque became aware of “los muros de burque“ about a month ago, and, ever since, grand proclamations have been proclaimed by BB staff that we will “ride our bicycle to every single mural on the los muros website in a single day.” You know, a quest. A pointless gesture in that “I… Read More Riding/Taking the Missing Mural Challenge

The focus in the news stories is on the City changing its mind, but the more meaningful “story” concerning reinstallation of stop signs at Coal and 8th/Roma and 4th/5th downtown is that significant attention is being paid to making roadway usage safer, instead of simply focusing on getting drivers from one place to another as… Read More Humans are Whiny: News at 11