In recent discussions and cussing here at Better Burque about safety and bike infrastructure around town, the topic of roundabouts and traffic circles, naturally, has come up. Are these treatments safer than red lights and two/four-way stops? Keeping in mind that large roundabouts (think Yale just north of Lomas in the UNM campus area) are… Read More Are Small Traffic Circles Safer for Cyclists?

by Scot Every once in a fairly great while, the work and topics brought up here at Better Burque garner some “traction” and we get quite a few more “clicks” on the site. Then things die down, inevitably, and we return to our day-to-day generally sleepy town blog existence, continuing to ponder how Albuquerque can… Read More Gravel-Covered Sidewalks, Introversion and Better Burque: A Meta “Analysis”

by Scot Key An observant BB reader relates that it’s right there on the cross-section drawings shown in an earlier post. As circled above, the bike lane width of 4.5′ in the Girard Complete Streets plan definitely includes the gutter between Lomas and Indian School. While we won’t be entirely sure about the veracity of… Read More Stuck in the Gutter: What to Do About that Ugly Girard Blvd. Bike Lane

By Scot Key Relative to our “flash poll” yesterday regarding the new road striping on Girard between Lomas and Indian School, here’s a recent photo taken by occasional Better Burque contributor John Fleck looking northbound on Girard just south of Frontier Ave. (just north of Jefferson Middle School): Ouch. Since this photo first appeared, there’s… Read More Looking Closer at that Ugly Girard Blvd. “Bike Lane”

Road tires be damned, I rode my very road-bike Colnago out on the under-construction section of I-40 Trail Western Extension between Unser and Arroyo Vista (AKA: 98th St.) yesterday. Here we are coming up to the new AMAFCA “Volcano” just east of Arroyo Vista. Just enough grip here to ride the Colgi without too much… Read More Very Short Tour of the I-40 Trail Western Extension

Girard North of Lomas: 4 ft. bike lane and skinny “door zone” buffer between bike lane and parking lane on one side of the street, and… bike lane so skinny the bike lane stencil doesn’t fit (ranging from 32 to 36 inches) on the other side of the street.   OR Girard South of Central… Read More Girard Flash Poll: Which Do You Like More (Dislike Least)?