If you’re going to ride a bike around Albany for any length of time, sooner or later you’re going to want to cross the Willamette River.
Driving around Albany at night, you often come across people on bikes who can barely be seen, if at all. So with nothing better to do on a slow Tuesday afternoon, I tried my hand at putting together a little video on the subject of bikes and lights.
Two Albany advisory commissions would like the city to go ahead and improve Madison Street from Pacific Boulevard to First Avenue as a “bicycle boulevard.”
It was almost like spring on the last day of February, a fine day to take a look at one of Albany’s neighborhoods.
Every once in a while I find myself on Madison, one of the streets in old Albany where the pavement makes your teeth chatter, especially if you’re on a bike. So an item on the agenda of the city’s bike and pedestrian commission caught my eye.
Somebody asked me about bike rides in Albany, where to go and so forth. Here are some thoughts based on my experience over the past few years.
That urban ‘vandal’ has buck teeth
Somebody was alarmed by what she had seen near the north end of Albany’s Periwinkle Bike Path, and she wanted something done.
Tags: Albany parks, beavers, Periwinkle Bike Path, Periwinkle Bikepath, Periwinkle Creek