Have you ever wondered what the bike lane under all the cars eternally parked in the bike lane on Central Avenue just west of 10th Street actually looks like? Well… Better Burque can’t claim that its phone call to “the cops” Saturday morning reporting several cars parked, as always, in the now totally completely utterly… Read More Parting of the Cars Parked in the Bike Lane Sea
O Rancho Seco Cycle Track, we hardly knew ye For if not signed so strangely as above We’d never thought you were designed To be a Cycle Track like this No drivers did, for they did zoom Into the Wendy’s unaware Mere faded stripes indicated “protection” Along your 227-foot gentle curve. No, you were never… Read More Elegy for Rancho Seco Cycle Track
Having finished my first round of research of Albuquerque Police Department reports on 2017-2018 walking fatalities, I can report that many of the lives ended by these incidents were anything but smooth and often troubled. As noted sometime back, it makes sense given that we have made walking our roadways so unsafe that only those… Read More Small Details of “Pedestrian Error” at Menaul and University NE
What is to be done regarding the curious intersection of Columbia and Santa Clara SE? The latest attempt, of several over the years, to find an agreeable remedy for speeding traffic and various aspects of bad driving at the infamous intersection will have a decided “tactical urbanism” twinge. Culminating a long process of input and… Read More City of Albuquerque to Go Tactical Urbanist at Santa Clara/Columbia
The Better Burque Tactical Urbanism Team (BBTUT) rode to the far east side of Burque through Singing Arrow Community Center yesterday on our way to the corner of Tramway and Wenowah: The visit brought to memory a fairly recent news story about the Community Center and a question about Tramway and Wenowah, location of the… Read More Riding Through NIMBY Dreamland
The absurdity of the “school crossing guard” is a striking admission. We’ve built transportation systems that are unsafe for routine non-motorized use. But we’ve decided that one particular group of non-motorized users – our children – are worthy of special protection from this hazard we routinely accept, during a few narrow windows of time in… Read More The absurdity of the “school crossing guard”
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