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Urban Beautification
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Burque Bikers
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from http://www.santafenewmexican.com/Local%20News/News-in-brief-April-8
"The study found that ease of travel has led to faster speeds, contributing to the accident rate. The severity of crashes has dropped on U.S. 550, the successor to the two-l...
Here's an interesting series of articles concerning Gary Johnson's Highway 550 dealings: http://www.abqjournal.com/nm44/nm44.pdf
Gary Johnson left the state $400M in debt ($20M/year) when he left office, to pay for a road that is missing guard ra...
Here's an interesting series of articles concerning Gary Johnson's Highway 550 dealings: http://www.abqjournal.com/nm44/nm44.pdf
Gary Johnson left the state $400M in debt ($20M/year) when he left office, to pay for a super-deluxe 20 year warranty...
Why would a rich suburb like Oro Valley (just north of Tucson) be jealous of how friendly we our with our tax incentives, when that city has given 4 major developers half of the sales tax for their strip shopping malls? Maybe they're jealous that ...
It's not named El Norteno anymore......
Is it replacing that strange "club" store (that was supposed to be a pharmacy, that wiped out a pretty fun bar)? I'll have to check it out - Ace Hardware is always a good place to find replacement parts.
Unfortunately, when you shift income and property taxes to sales tax (under the theory that the other guy will pay the tax, not you), you get huge deficits when a recession occurs and nobody spends. Since it's really hard to now raise the personal...
I was expecting that punch line - "And that's how I met my lovely wife...." to end this story....
(Don't polar opposites always attract each other? I always wondered why the sorority girls wouldn't return my phone calls in college....)
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- Where I Live:
- Academy Hills Park area (Far NE Heights)
- About Me:
- I like everything about food ( and it shows!). Cheap gourmet cook. I grow exotic vegie's - things you don't get here, like sweet Italian peppers and tomatoes. Moved here to develop an alternative energy product, but, bummer, found myself working for the war on terror instead. (Only way to stay in ABQ). It's relatively benign, though.
I enjoy interesting music and artistic people in general - I can't draw or play music, but I really like folks who can. Someone's got to support them. I fall asleep watching movies at home, so I prefer to go out to see live music.
Play tennis, badmitton (it's a tough sport!) and bike around a bit.
My wife and I have an interesting house that's unique in this part of town. I'm still trying to figure out stucco texturing techniques - real stucco is wonderful, but tough to match.
One wife, one son, one cat, three fish.
- Favorite Thing(s) About Albuquerque:
- 4 season climate, interesting mix of people, variety of things to do
- Relationship Status:
- Married
- What I'm Reading:
- The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan
The World Without Us by Alan Wiseman
Chinglish (Found in Translation) by Oliver Lutz Radtke
- What I'm Listening To:
- Weekdays - I listen to XM radio, mostly jazz, blues and their "college" station. Weekends - Online radio - mostly KCRW, the college station from Santa Monica, CA - Weekend Becomes Eclectic.
Carla Bruni, Ry Cooter, The Blasters, Red Elvises, SCOTS, X, The Mollys, lots of Latino rhythm's
Shotsie's Blog
In Case You Weren't There.... Or Maybe You Were
Suzanne Sbarge of the wonderful 516 ARTS Gallery, Laurie Anderson (of course!) & our own terrific concert promoter Neal Copperman, in case you weren't there to see them in person....
Yeah, I won the Laurie Anderson tickets and begged friends to go, but no one was availa… Continue
Posted on June 11, 2009 at 9:28pm —
Comment Wall (6 comments)
- At 2:30pm on February 1, 2009,
Doug R said… - Shotsie - I will put up an updated photo for sure. Give me a week or two. Tell you the truth, went to some networking event last Wed night, and felt like a midget. Where do they grow these kids? Uh oh, showing my age (46). I'm 5'9" but found myself looking up when talking to everyone I met. It must be the radioactive discharge into the Rio Grande from LANL, right?
Well, I'm enjoying it out here. Crazy drivers, only minutes to the other end of town, the food, etc. Hoping to be on a normal routine in the 3 weeks or so. Most of the work on the house is done. My wife tells me ABO, Jemez, Santa Fe, El Morro/La Ventana, etc are on the list to hit before we both start looking for jobs. Sounds good to me!
- At 6:43pm on December 16, 2008,
ABQDWELL said… - Good to hear from you. I suspect we agree on a lot more than we disagree. I chose to live where I do primarily because of schools and access to outdoor activities. Post kids we will definitely live in an urban walkable area. My wife and I both are fortunate enough to work out of the house so we spend very little time in a car which was a factor in our decision (we have a mini van and Prius, which we primarily drive). We are actually quite close to numerous grocery stores and often bike to Trader Joes, the gym, the coffee shop, restaurants, etc. The area near the Tram, I think, is an example of pretty decent suburban development in ABQ; quality schools, lots of natural attractive landscaping, lots of bike paths (all along Tramway and down Paseo, and of course the wonderful foothills, we are a mountain biking family) and close access to all services. I bristle when I drive down Montgomery, Paseo, Candeleria, Comanche, and of course the eyesore that is the I-25. I very much enjoy driving Central east of Washington and on Rio Grande. These are examples of human centered development, in my mind. I am not anti car. Just anti automobile ghetto, which ABQ has far too much of. Projects such as Rail Runner and the streetcar counter this 1950s mentality of development. I think we will both be amazed at the type of development that sprouts near Rail Runner stops, especially in Santa Fe.
We will just have to agree to disagree on the streetcar as I see it as a key part of an efficient, forward-thinking transportation system. The plans I have seen serve the most heavily traveled and populated areas of the city which are only going to become more populated and dense. A streetcar type system is best equipped to adapt to such growth. Plus it gets harder and harder to add such systems as density increases. And as growth occurs the system will expand accordingly. It is not a question of if, it is a question of when. Why not have a system five years too soon (at today's prices) than 10 years too late? We seem to always be chasing growth. I think Portland is the only city I know of that has figured this out.
Glad that you would support a system if the federal government funded it. It's time to flip the formula from 90% federally funded roads to 90% federally funded mass transit projects. Imagine the regional planning decisions ABQ would make if that was the case? I bet we would have a city we both enjoyed even more.
Looks like you have been reading some good books. I would encourage you to pick up Traffic by Tom Vanderbilt. And if you do, I would love to hear your thoughts on it. The times are changing, finally. But probably not fast enough for me.
Last thoughts, do you know or can you ask the mayor what the city gets in exchange for allowing billboards to blight our landscape? Does the city get any funding or does it simply go the mega outdoor advertising firms?
If you have an interest, here's my blog where I advocate for things I would like to see ABQ have.
- At 1:59pm on December 16, 2008,
ABQDWELL said…
- shotsie,
Could you be more misguided in your understanding of irony? You were trying to make the point that I probably live in Nob Hill or the corridor to be served by the Streetcar. I was making the point that I am advocating for something that does not directly benefit me. As far as walking the walk, I work out of the house, bike most places, and drive only a few times a week. You know nothing about how I live yet you are very comfortable making broad judgments. I think you need to check your negativity not just in your misguided judgments but comments such as this: "I am NOT going to park my vehicle at Walmart on San Mateo, or try to navigate the bus system just to take this streetcar to, ah, Old Town... or sell my nice house to live in some overpriced condo downtown." Sorry you seem so miserable.
- At 5:07pm on October 16, 2008,
Mark said… - Hi shotsie, come check out Urban Beautification to see if you are on board.
thx, M
- At 4:07pm on March 25, 2008,
bleve said… - I think the unwed mothers idea was great. Could also use women mentors and help the women start a business where they could work part-time and receive communal baby daycare.
I had an idea about that recently for cloth-diaper delivery but the price of gas is getting crazy.
- At 9:38am on March 18, 2008,
bleve said…
- Thanks for your comments on the congress forum... I went to the march this past weekend and can only surmise that the crowd in 2003 was of the same character... mellow, non-violent and informed. What happened back then deeply disturbs me and White's role in that event definitely needs to be public knowledge.
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