Continuing our periodic look at the pedestrian death crisis in our state and nation, figures for December 2017 have been released by UNM’s Traffic Research Unit. Hence, we now have a complete look at 2017, and that look continues to be gruesome: TRU having compiled and made available online data since 2006, we are able… Read More 2017 NM Pedestrian Fatalities Near Record High

One of my favorite bits of Albuquerqiana… Arenal Road just west of Isleta Boulevard, New Year’s Day, 2018   Excerpt from 1960 USGS Albuquerque map   Sunset wasn’t the only drive-in, of course. Same 1960 map, with drive-in along Broadway/NM-47 just east of the train tracks.   But that one is gone by 1990, while… Read More Vanishing or Vanished America: South Valley Drive-In Movies

Yes, at present Albuquerque Rapid Transit is nothing more than a very large metaphorical cat litter box. It stinks, and we’re all looking at each other to change it, many of us saying we didn’t want cats to begin with. There is much smell, and much shaming and blaming. Particularly of those who moved out… Read More Now is the Winter of A.R.T. Discontent

This past Sunday John and I rode out to Arenal Road Southwest, site of an upcoming City of Albuquerque road project. For those who don’t make it out there much, here’s Arenal Road (look for the red) in context: Yeah, we’re talking way down South to most Burqueans’ way of thinking. Arenal Rd. is in… Read More I Got Them Unincorporated Meets Incorporation Road Engineering Blues

Heading Westbound on Arenal Road S.W., Between Coors and Unser Boulevards, 1.7.18. Look for more about this suddenly terminating bike lane in the next post here at Better Burque. And yeah, those massive roadway cracks you see above will be discussed, as well.

Editor’s Note: Dan Majewski, Albuquerque urban planner, multi-modal advocate, and current member of the Greater Albuquerque Bicycling Advisory Committee, wrote the essay below for Urban ABQ back in 2013. It is a piece always worth “reprinting,” but the recent reallocation of capital funds to do, perhaps, something quite like Dan’s proposal below is a good,… Read More Example of Potentially Successful Bicycle Advocacy: A 2013 Look at Indian School NE