The path has been repaired with a patch of asphalt.
I was out of town for a while and had not been on the Dave Clark Riverside Path in Albany for more than a week. When I got back on it Friday, something on the path had changed and something else not.
The change was that a gap in the path at about Jefferson Street had been repaired.
The gap came about when the city cut out the concrete where it had been lifted up, apparently as the result of summertime heat and expansion of a steel structure holding it up. Twelve inches wide at one end and 17 inches at the other, the gap in the concrete had been filled with gravel.
This gap in the path was no problem for people on bikes. But somebody using a wheelchair might have had some difficulty.
Anyway, I was glad to see that when I rode the bike that way on Friday, a patch of asphalt filled the gap.
Farther to the west, I had hoped to see some progress on the reconstruction of the viewing pier at the foot of Broadalbin Street. But the scene was unchanged.
The pier has been dismantled and inaccessible since early in the summer. It’s being rebuilt as part of the CARA urban renewal district’s project to improve the riverfront.
The waterfront contractor’s anticipated timeline, shown at an open house in May, said reconstruction of this pier is to be complete by the end of this month. Presumably that means work to rebuild it should resume any time.
The other riverside pier, the western one near Bowman Park, was to be finished by now. Maybe it is. That part of the project area is still fenced off from public view while work at the park continues.
If the contractor, K&E Excavating, sticks with the timeline, all the work in Monteith Park should be done by February 2024. I’m looking forward to seeing the new park and being able to get out on the piers to watch the river next spring. (hh)
The east viewpoint on the Clark Path, seen Friday, has been in this stage of reconstruction since July.
Hopefully that’s not supposed to be a permanent fix and will be done right at a later date?
How about a follow up on your story about the Periwinkle Bike Path? That area is still covered in garbage, although the giant mound was cleaned up by a private citizen. (“Code Enforcement” chose to ignore it.) There are new tents set up in the bushes and along the water, including the designated toilet area on the stream. The police patrol the path sometimes, but they still don’t tell people not to camp there.
I heard someone getting their purse snatched last night around 11pm. A few days ago, a thwacked out junkie was screaming at me that he was gonna kick my arse while I was standing HUNDREDS of feet away, across the bridge for the stream, while taking pictures of the shopping carts that have been clogging the waterway for years. The crime in Kinder Park and the surrounding areas has been getting worse and the police and the city council are still ignoring it.