Public Meeting Report: I-25/Rio Bravo Interchange, 4.14.16

Who says Albuquerque’s South Valley never gets “nice things”?  After a 2015 in which the project only wobbled, a long-awaited public meeting was held last night at Mountainview Community Center to explain/discuss an even more long-awaited project: the complete reconstruction of the woefully old, inadequate and dangerous I-25/Rio Bravo Interchange. Before a largely appreciative group, Senator Michael… Read More Public Meeting Report: I-25/Rio Bravo Interchange, 4.14.16

We May Not Know ART (Albuquerque Rapid Transit), But We Know What We Don’t Like

The proposed station is “beyond ugly,” she said. – Lauren Austin, CABQ Landmarks Commission member and Huning Highland neighborhood resident, from “Landmark Commission Questions ART Project,” Albuquerque Journal, 4.13.16 You can’t legislate morality, and you may or may not know pornography when you see it, but what about making public policy centered around whether something is… Read More We May Not Know ART (Albuquerque Rapid Transit), But We Know What We Don’t Like

Wanna Make Better Burque Better? Call For Contributors

Interested in making our city a better, more informed place? Know or want an excuse to know more about local transportation, education and other issues? Willing to share that interest via the ever-amorphous, oft-frustrating and never fully satisfying internet? Better Burque was never intended to be a one-horse interwebs town and this is a call… Read More Wanna Make Better Burque Better? Call For Contributors

Presbyterian’s Plan to Turn Silver Avenue Into Parking: The Simple and Not-So-Simple

Like most things, it’s more complicated than it might appear. On a simple level, you have a health-care facility, a beacon of healthy living incarnate, suggesting it needs more places for people driving cars to park at the expense of people riding bikes. On a simple level, it sounds amazingly ill-conceived. But it’s more complicated… Read More Presbyterian’s Plan to Turn Silver Avenue Into Parking: The Simple and Not-So-Simple