When we last spoke, in that blog way where I “speak” and you tend to not say/write anything, I was going on and on about the lack of continued bike infrastructure on Academy Blvd. east of Ventura (the ABQ road, not the highway/freeway/neighborhood in Los Angeles). Let’s use this example as a springboard to expressing… Read More Routing Academy with a Low-Stress Mindset
Unnamed Sunday riding buddy and I ventured from our relatively proletarian neigborhoods (South Valley/Unnamed neighborhood north of UNM) and illegally, kinda, broke into Tanoan yesterday in a funny set of circumstances involving White Privilege (ours). That’s not the reason for this post, but it makes for too good of a “lede” to pass up. What… Read More What’s Up With the Bike Lane Gap on Academy?
Maybe it’s time we restriped Candelaria Road… Riding out this early morning to meet folks for breakfast at Milly’s (see map below), I took the North Diversion Channel up to Candelaria and turned west toward said restaurant. The red star at Candelaria/Stanford marks the spot of the photo above that I took this morning, July… Read More That Shameful Bike Lane on Candelaria
Being as you’re in this obscure neck of the Internet woods, you’ve probably heard/read findings of the preliminary 2022 report on pedestrian fatalities by the Governors’ Highway Safety Association. You also probably saw an accompanying graph that looked something like this from CNN: And maybe, you’re like me and you’ve been thinking quite a bit… Read More That Pedestrian Fatalities 1975-2022 Graph
Bad news, everybody. My current, and hopefully last ever, attempt at gainful employment ends this week. That means your inbox, or where/however you receive Better Burque, is about to receive pretty much daily missives from this blog. As personal employment still continues to linger like a bad case of Covid this week, I’m just posting… Read More How Best to Ding Dangerous Vehicle Types?
By John Fleck This morning’s Downtown Albuquerque News documents the demise of one of Albuquerque’s pedestrian safety experiments – a new crosswalk with flashy lights adjacent to our city’s Old Town tourist mecca. The reason? It’s just too dangerous to try to get people driving automobiles to obey the law. Even with the offer of… Read More The Demise of the Hollywood Crosswalk: Why We Can’t Have Nice Things
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