The $293 million Big-I reconstruction back in 2000-2002 was a smashing success. Completed before its scheduled date, the work has been generally applauded by “the public” since completion and continues to be gushed over throughout the road design, construction, promotion, and engineering industries.  The work won an AASHTO “President’s Transportation Award” in 2002. What a… Read More Undoing an oxymoron: Cycling/Walking and the Big-I

Bombast and outrage generate more Internet “traffic” (so to speak), but it’s important for hugely important blogs, such as Better Burque, to also calmly point out when multi-modal transportation has been made better. Case in point: While the Better Burque Tacital Urbanism Team (BBTUT) has previously come across “bike lane closed ahead” signs smack-dab in… Read More Today’s Feel-Good Story in Roadway Signage

The sign and bike lane above are NMDOT’s contribution to nearly completed Coors/Blake reconstruction by BernCo. In other words, this sign went up only two or three weeks ago, offering cyclists the wonderful opportunity to “Share the Road” on a posted 45 mph (actual average speed 48-55 with many exceptions at higher speeds) stroad averaging… Read More C’mon Cyclists: Share the Coors Boulevard!

Plenty of good input and excellent questions have resulted from BB’s first look at a Top Ten list of Burque cycling infrastructure gaps, an exercise based on the fact the City will shortly have roughly one fed/local match million dollars to spend toward addressing at least one such gap. In addition to the great ideas,… Read More If You Had a Million Dollars What Cycling Gaps Would You Fix? Part II

Congratulations! It’s a bike lane! “Weighing” about 400 feet, the newborn bike lane on Copper NE below was conceived “in vitro” through reconstruction at the adjacent De Anza Motel. Below is what Copper looked like westbound at Washington before the De Anza was De Molished to put up apartments. Note the roadway was widened through… Read More A Bike Lane is Born on Copper

Like a macabre greatest hits act playing the same tired old tunes at a casino, the latest two deaths to those trying to walk Burque roadways happened, again, on Central Avenue and Coors Boulevard. More precisely, the death on Central a few days ago was at Central and Mesilla, in the boxed area below. The… Read More Two Stroads, Two More Walking Deaths