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Better Burque 2.0: What’s Next in 2017 – BetterBurque

https://betterburque.org/2016/12/22/better-burque-2-0-whats-next-in-2017

A Place for Ideas Toward a More Enchanting ABQ. Better Burque 2.0: What’s Next in 2017. While 2016 has been pretty much a complete shitshow all around the world, it’s been a fascinating and rewarding one, personally, and here at Better Burque. Starting up early this year, BB has tried to step at least a bit deeper into local issues, particularly those concerning transportation. I’ve learned a lot, and hope that passing along that learning hasn’t been. Pedantic or polemical in its expression here. When BB...

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Better Solutions at Coors & Blake, Part I: What is Currently Planned – BetterBurque

https://betterburque.org/2016/12/12/better-solutions-at-coors-blake-part-i-what-is-currently-planned

A Place for Ideas Toward a More Enchanting ABQ. Better Solutions at Coors and Blake, Part I: What is Currently Planned. When does a highway become a street? When does a thoroughfare to somewhere else become a place to “shop-and-stroll”? Questions such as these might not seem germane when talking about the project to improve the Coors and Blake intersection and roadway immediately adjacent, and putting the term “shop-and-stroll” within the same metaphorical area code patently ludicrous. There’s a cu...

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Better Solutions at Coors & Blake, Finale: Fitting a New Reality – BetterBurque

https://betterburque.org/2016/12/14/better-solutions-at-coors-blake-finale-fitting-a-new-reality

A Place for Ideas Toward a More Enchanting ABQ. Better Solutions at Coors and Blake, Finale: Fitting a New Reality. Two days ago, Better Burque started a closer look. At the scheduled improvements. The gap between what’s proposed and needed can somewhat be summed up in the two Streetview photos posted previously. Let’s put them up again for reference, the first from March 2008 and the second from earlier this year:. To avoid a total regurgitation of “Part I”. In this series, the project proposal does gra...

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Build Yourself a Mother of a Road: Central at Tulane – BetterBurque

https://betterburque.org/2016/12/13/build-yourself-a-mother-of-a-road-central-at-tulane

A Place for Ideas Toward a More Enchanting ABQ. Build Yourself a Mother of a Road: Central at Tulane. Regardless of how one feels, positive or negative, about the many road construction projects going on around the Duke City, it’s inarguable that orange barrels, orange poles, orange poles with lights on top of it, you name it, orange is the color of more than just the President-Elect’s campaign skin tone these days. We’re awash in orange. Or something like this photo taken in 1917 along Central. Running ...

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BetterBurque – Page 2 – A Place for Ideas Toward a More Enchanting ABQ

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A Place for Ideas Toward a More Enchanting ABQ. Some Things Take a Long Time: Ribbon Cutting for the New Silver Bike Boulevard. February 22, 2017. February 22, 2017. You Can’t Tell the Teachers Without a Scorecard: Watching NM Legislature 2017. February 21, 2017. Things BB Wrote Elsewhere: Hanna Skandera and the Steaming Crock of “Piecemeal”. February 20, 2017. February 20, 2017. Better Burque 2.0: What’s Next in 2017. While 2016 has been pretty much a complete shitshow all around the world, it’s b...

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jscotkey – BetterBurque

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A Place for Ideas Toward a More Enchanting ABQ. City of Albuquerque Pulls the Sidewalk Rug on Nob Hill: A Punk History. March 7, 2017. March 7, 2017. Want More Depth in Your Democracy? Tonight’s City Council Meeting on “ABC to Z”. Note: This week’s BB goes Duke City Fix post… Are you sick and tired of political discourse revolving around 140-character tweets? Are you looking for more substance and complexity than “more money means we can win wars again” and such? March 6, 2017. March 1, 2017. It’s ...

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Front Line Report: Trying to ride a bicycle at Blake and Coors – BetterBurque

https://betterburque.org/2016/12/09/front-line-report-trying-to-ride-a-bicycle-at-blake-and-coors

A Place for Ideas Toward a More Enchanting ABQ. Front Line Report: Trying to ride a bicycle at Blake and Coors. As mentioned previously here. A public meeting was held last night to discuss the upcoming project to improve the intersection of Coors Blvd. and Blake Rd. in the South Valley, and its immediate environs. I can most happily report that I am still alive after having done this. It was touch-and-go there for a minute or two. At the intersection itself, the intrepid bike/ped explorer enters a lunar...

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Solving Bike/Ped Safety Equity: Zuni Rd. S.E. as Example – BetterBurque

https://betterburque.org/2016/12/16/solving-bikeped-safety-equity-zuni-rd-s-e-as-example

A Place for Ideas Toward a More Enchanting ABQ. Solving Bike/Ped Safety Equity: Zuni Rd. S.E. as Example. The above graphic was one of many interesting observations and ideas expressed at the #Moveequity Tweetchat. Held this past Wednesday. Issues of environmental and health justice are important everywhere, Burque included. One can’t help but see the figures on sidewalks and street lighting above and tie it into our discussion this week on the intersection of Coors and Blake. Going through one of the po...

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2016: Year in Rose-Colored Glasses Review – BetterBurque

https://betterburque.org/2016/12/20/2016-year-in-rose-colored-glasses-review

A Place for Ideas Toward a More Enchanting ABQ. 2016: Year in Rose-Colored Glasses Review. We haven’t seen too many “2016: Year in Review” articles/stories/blog posts yet, and that might be because it’s just now December 20th, but it’s probably far more likely that everyone required to write reviews is so dreading the prospect of reviewing a year so awful, so heinous that recapping it will almost be as bad as having had to live through it. Or instead, maybe we can just place a moratorium on the typical &...