We gotta fix the big things. Absolutely gotta. But we also gotta fix the small things and we also gotta acknowledge when they get fixed. Right at a month ago, a friend of Better Burque passed along a photo of a curb median inexplicably installed directly in the path of the extremely popular North Diversion… Read More Changing the World One Curb Median at a Time
BB posts with photos of murals are both popular and keep Scot from going on and on about sidewalks and bike lanes. Perhaps the latter is the biggest reason for the popularity. Nah, it’s the artwork; vibrant visual reminders that we live in a great town full of creativity. Here’s a detail (i.e., I can’t… Read More More Good Visual News: Tortuga Gallery
Summer means road maintenance, and Burque City Department of Municipal Development (DMD) is currently working/finishing several repaving jobs for streets that have come up “due” for such work in DMD’s mysterious, and really hard to publicly obtain, maintenance schedule. One such job in-progress is Mountain Road NW between 12th and Rio Grande Boulevard. Fresh pavement… Read More Let’s Just Not Stripe Roadways at All: A Contemplation
It’s not all bad news out there. Honest. Here’s the new mural on southside Coal Avenue east of 2nd to help cyclists/walkers as they ascend the hill over the railroad trestle to Broadway Boulevard.
Construction looks almost complete on the new “Zocalo Lofts” at the Southwest corner of Coal Ave. and 4th St. S.W. Downtown. Visiting the area yesterday to see how roadway striping was proceeding on both Coal and 4th St., I came across what looks to be brand-new curb, gutter, sidewalk work done along with the building… Read More ADA-Compliance Problems on Coal/4th at Zocalo Lofts
I live and work in the South Valley, a universally acknowledged “poor part of town” where poverty rates for children reach as high as 40% in some census tracts. I know those statistics from research I do as part of my current “day job” writing grants seeking funds to improve the economy down here. One… Read More How Vehicles Keep the South Valley Poor
