It was raining but still light Saturday afternoon when I went on a short bike ride to take advantage of daylight saving time for the last time in 2024.
Quite a bit of damage has been done at Albany’s Monteith Riverpark since it was reopened in July after more than a year of reconstruction. The city has deployed its camera trailer at the park to try to prevent any more.
A Pacific Power contractor is working on undergrounding electric wires along a section of Water Avenue on the Albany riverfront. Ratepayers in Albany can expect to get the bill, but the amount is not yet clear.
Someone asked whether the new signage at Courtesy Corner meant that the 70-year-old gas station in Albany had been sold. The answer, I’m happy to report, is no. It remains the same family business it has been since 1962.
Late October is as good a time as any for a visit to Albany’s Talking Water Gardens, and I did a circuit of the major paths on the bike in the middle of last week.
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.
A new wrinkle in bike lane markings
Here’s an apparent innovation in pavement markings: a double white line with chevrons denoting the bike lane on the section of Albany’s Queen Avenue that was repaved last month.
Tags: Albany streets, bicycling, curve markings, like lanes, Oregon DMV, pavement markings, Queen Avenue