Whether anything comes of this is uncertain, but Albany’s downtown urban development board last week heard about an idea for turning a vacant store into shared office space and a couple of meeting rooms.
New code on signs: Little change
Written June 27th, 2018 by Hasso Hering
Albany has a revised sign code, but I can’t see that it will make a noticeable difference in the bewildering array of signs in many of the commercial parts of town.
A wooden boat? That means work
Written June 26th, 2018 by Hasso Hering
Many times I’ve admired the wooden sailboat sitting outside a house on Sherman Street in Albany’s Willamette Neighborhood. On Tuesday I saw a man working on it, and I stopped and got off the bike.
Revisiting Pirtle: A station in rail history
Written June 25th, 2018 by Hasso Hering
It was three years ago, in April 2015, that I wrote about the former Pirtle power transfer station on the old Oregon Electric Railway. Last week I looked at it again and, no surprise, it and the graffiti are still there.
Checking in on Millersburg Love’s
Written June 24th, 2018 by Hasso Hering
Wondering how things were coming along at the new Love’s Travel Stop and Country Store, I took a ride out to Millersburg on Saturday.
Racing on Second Avenue? Not exactly
Written June 23rd, 2018 by Hasso Hering
[youtube video=”CXyWG13oPGM”] If a week-long “tube count” of traffic is any indication, speeding is not a widespread problem on Albany’s Second Avenue S.E. There may be the occasional speeder, sure, but by and large the pace of traffic is pretty sedate.
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Photo speed tickets: Not in Albany (yet?)
While I was biking around Medford the other day, this sign caught my eye now that Albany has begun experimenting with radar speed displays.
Tags: photo speed enforcement, radar speed cameras