It’s interesting that the absolute best places to keep up with news about death/injury to those trying to walk our roads are law firm websites.  These online “news stories” include Google Map views and everything. Of course, primary motivation for these firms’ “news gathering” isn’t fixing the problem, it’s drumming up business from those killed/injured… Read More All the Walking Death/Injury News Fit to Put on a Law Firm Website

We here at Better Burque (well, at least some of us) were happy to see the City of Albuquerque’s attempt to catalog the safety of our community’s school-related pedestrian crossings. But there’s a sad underlying reality to the need for this – a tacit acceptance of the reality that some substantial fraction of the drivers… Read More School crosswalk safety in Albuquerque

The ongoing funny saga of New York Avenue south and east of Central Avenue has taken a botanical turn of sorts. Incorporated as bike infrastructure escape from Central Ave. at its curve around the Country Club in response to A.R.T. construction and the El Vado Motel Redevelopment, New York Avenue, a crudely drawn and engineered… Read More It’s a Road, It’s a Bike Path, It’s a Parking Lot, It’s a Dessert Topping

I don’t make it to Nob Hill as much as I used to, about once every three months it seems. That infrequency makes each sojourn there now a brand new adventure, as there are invariably new shops/restaurants and newly closed shops/restaurants. Finding my bearings is only made possible by landmark, long-time survivors, such as The… Read More Streetview Fun: Death Retail/Restaurant Sites in Nob Hill

If you’re trying to cross Bridge Boulevard at La Vega in a wheelchair and somehow survive the eastbound lanes across the nearly non-existent crosswalk striping, here is your reward at the median: Thanks for trying. Just roll around that median into the roadway, won’t you? Have a nice day! Yes, I know this intersection will… Read More Just Roll into the Roadway: Bridge at La Vega