Walkers pass under the railroad bridge on the Dave Clark Riverfront Path on Wednesday afternoon.
The Dave Clark Riverfront Path in Albany is a nice place to walk or ride a bike, even when a section of it looks like in the photo above.
The section under the Albany railroad bridge has looked like this for about a week.
There were two shopping carts, one from Target and another from Marshalls. The one from Target illustrates why Albany’s recently revised ordinance on stolen shopping carts can’t really work. The cart was crammed full of stuff.
The law requires owners, when notified, to retrieve their carts or face potential fines. But what are stores supposed to do with the stuff left in their carts? And what if the people whose stuff it is show up and resist their belongings being confiscated?
You’d probably have to have law enforcement stand by while their owners try to repossess stolen carts.
While I was thinking about this, I looked up at the railroad bridge and saw:
A guy is standing among the steel girders of the Albany railroad bridge on Wednesday afternoon.
I’m not sure what the Portland & Western Railroad thinks of people hanging out on their bridge. I doubt they would approve.
Let’s hope the guy got off the bridge, or at least off the track, before the next train came along.
After several days of steady rain, Wednesday’s sunshine was more than welcome, as you can see from my musings farther west on the Dave Clark Path:
As I said, it was a fine day along the Albany riverfront, on foot and on the bike. (hh)
Do you ever travel to SW
Albany? Plenty to write about here. You report about the Dave Clark path and the santiam canal and vagrants leaving trash in abandoned shopping carts. It is the same old stuff you report on. Boring……ever consider driving a car?? Then probably you would not talk about the same thing all the time THANKYOU!!
4 out of the last 5 posts were SW –
2/24/26 – NETL
2/23/26 – Calapooia Commons
2/20/26 – Old Safeway
2/19/16 – St. Francis
This is Hasso’s house. He can do what he wants.
Matthew 5:29-30 King James Version
One of the greatest compliments in writing Hasso is to be criticized for what you write yet those who do still continue to read what you write.
When my brothers and I were kids, we used to climb onto a local railroad trestle, wait until we heard a train coming, then jump off the side at the last possible second. We got splattered with oil and other debris. So fun. To be a kid in the 1940’s and 1950’s was far different to what kids are allowed to do today. Sad!
Peg, sad indeed now kiddos suffer carpal tunnel from playing commuter games and broken bones from skate boarding on concrete. Trees, grass and dirt are considered dangerous. Common sense is old school, lol