Criss-crossing Albany on a bike, I often stop and look at construction sites, especially those where new housing has just been finished or is still being built.
Neighbors now don’t have to worry that the city will reopen the handy shortcut from 36th Avenue to Ermine Street near South Albany High School.
Sometimes it’s good to get away. A bike ride is one way to do that, especially if it’s on a route you don’t often take.
For no particular reason, my bike ride along the Albany riverfront Saturday took me to Bowman Park, where the only thing to see was the rain-swollen Willamette River.
Once again on Saturday, as sometimes happens, an aimless bike ride around Albany brought me to a place I had never been.
Here’s a railroad bridge construction project in Albany that likely won’t affect anyone other than, perhaps, the immediate neighbors.
A little bikeway lesson: How to cross here
Among important Albany transportation issues, how best to cross the intersection of Queen Avenue and Geary Street on the Periwinkle Bikepath surely ranks near the bottom of the list.
Tags: bicycling, chevron markings, intersection crossing, Periwinkle Bikepath, Queen and Geary, Safe Routes to School