A routine sign posted by the Albany planning division prompted a flurry of comments last week on social media, ranging from the need for housing to complaints about too much growth. That’s not, though, what this is about.
Every once in a while Albany’s Talking Water Gardens lure me for a bike ride on the gravel trails that wind around the ponds and waterfalls, all dry now because the water treatment function of the system has been shut off.
The traffic cameras on Santiam Road in Albany produced 460 speeding tickets in June, making them by far the largest revenue producer of the city’s four sets of speed cameras.
There seems to be much anxiety in Albany, and around the country, about Flock Safety and other automated cameras that record license plate numbers. What’s the reason for this sudden angst?
Last spring, the iconic Albany sprayfoam figures of a prospector and his burro found a new home over a car lot on Pacific Boulevard. But somebody evidently took exception.
On Wednesday evening the bike took me to 3080 Pacific Blvd. SE, which is in the parking lot on the west side of the Winco supermarket.
What should we call it instead?
It’s too late now, probably. Too late for what? For changing the name of Talking Water Gardens, the constructed wetlands that were supposed to cool and further treat the already treated wastewater coming out of the Albany-Millersburg sewage treatment plant.
Tags: bicycling, parks, Talking Water Gardens, wastewater treatment