When a section of Queen Avenue was reopened this week after being torn up for utility work and then repaved, somebody complained in a comment here that the railroad crossing was still as bumpy as always.
Exactly a year ago, the Albany City Council approved the purchase of a special kind of playground for installation at Lehigh Park. Now the city’s park maintenance crew is bolting the pieces together.
There’s something new to see at the northeast corner of Fourth Avenue and Calapooia Street in Albany: vertical construction.
On a bike ride Wednesday, I stopped at the bridge across Cox Creek on Waverly Drive. Except that the pavement has become more pitted, little has changed there since the bridge was briefly closed and then restricted to one driving lane in 2005.
A proposal to rezone an undeveloped property on Grand Prairie Road in southeast Albany to allow apartments or townhouses will be the subject of a continued public hearing next week.
There I was, staring at my laptop, when I looked up and saw something more interesting just outside the window. A northern flicker had come by to have a meal.
New in a ‘conflict zone:’ Green stripes
When Queen Avenue east of Pacific Boulevard in Albany was repaved and reopened to traffic last week, a new wrinkle appeared in the markings the contractor laid down: a series of green stripes in the bike lane.
Tags: bike lane, green paint, green pavement markings, Pacific Boulevard, Queen Avenue, turning movement