Your mileage may vary, as they say, and might be 0.000000 miles not including the grocery store these days, but your humble blogger needs bike rides now more than ever to maintain a balance of mental and physical health. Bike rides sure beat, for instance, sitting 100% at home following Twitter. Earlier this unforgettably long… Read More Burque Will be Better, But it Might Take a While
Long, long ago in a truly different era, around 30 of us sat in a room at the Mesa Verde Community Center discussing the area’s draft 2040 Long Range Metropolitan Transportation Plan (MTP). That was January 30, 2020. So very long ago. I recall repeatedly thinking during the session: “This draft is largely worthless, because… Read More Everything We Knew is Now Wrong: Looking Back/Forward at the 2040 Metropolitan Transportation Plan
Need some good news this morning, Burque? BB regulars and others obsessed with reading ABQ 311/SeeClickFix (SCF) reports might remember the saga of the ADA-violating “tree holes,” for lack of a better word along/outside the BernCo-owned Union Square building Downtown: These unsafe and a bad idea all-around tree holes were evidently installed as part of… Read More “Tree Holes” Fixed, to a Point, Along Union Square Downtown
by Emily Esterson The idea for today’s blog post has been poking around in my head for a few days now, and it’s turned out different from what I originally thought I would write about—that one was going to be called “The Trouble with Tribbles” or, alternately, “Don’t be a Slave to Your Levain.” But… Read More Breadder Burque Chapter III: Catching All this Damn Rye Bread
Ending a week in which someone was killed trying to cross an Albuquerque intersection while properly using the crosswalk, someone asked me yesterday if I had any ideas on how to educate those who usually don’t try to walk our roadways on just how dangerous it is. Here’s my idea. Let’s say we have a… Read More Ask Your Political Representatives to Take the “Walking Tour Challenge”
“You can’t tackle our rising epidemic of roadway deaths without tackling speeding.” – Robert L. Sumwalt, Chairman, United States National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) Everyone agrees with Chairman Sumwalt; however, the central importance of speed in roadway deaths is inadequately reflected in crash reporting and investigations by the Albuquerque Police Department. Mirroring underreporting nationwide, APD… Read More APD Underreports Speed as Factor in Pedestrian Fatality Crashes
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