Just minutes from town in all directions, there’s Willamette Valley agriculture. Take, for example, Stellmacher Road south of Albany, down which the bike and I made a little detour on Saturday.
Three letters on the asphalt: Puzzling it out
Written July 6th, 2021 by Hasso Hering
Last year the city had five blocks of Ninth Avenue in west Albany repaved, and the new asphalt was marked with “sharrows” wherever someone had sprayed the letters “SLM.” What could that stand for, I wondered now and then as the bike took me across these marks.
Posted in: Bicycling, Commentary
Tags: bicycling, road markings, shared line markers, shared line markings, sharing the road, sharrows
Tags: bicycling, road markings, shared line markers, shared line markings, sharing the road, sharrows
Taking a walk on the Ellsworth Street Bridge
Written June 30th, 2021 by Hasso Hering
Take a walk some time on the Ellsworth Street Bridge across the Willamette River in Albany and you’ll notice a thing or two. Or maybe not, so let me point them out.
Posted in: Bicycling, Commentary, News
Tags: bridge repairs, Conde B. McCullough, Ellsworth Street bridge, ODOT, Willamette River
Tags: bridge repairs, Conde B. McCullough, Ellsworth Street bridge, ODOT, Willamette River
Behold ‘new’ streets in this old neighborhood
Written June 30th, 2021 by Hasso Hering
When you’re on a bike, the quality of the road surface below your tires is something you notice. And on the evening of June 28, the hottest day in recorded history in the Willamette Valley, the newly surfaced streets in Albany’s Willamette Neighborhood caught my attention.
Posted in: Bicycling, Commentary, News
Tags: Albany streets, Burkhart Street, chip seal treatment, street paving, Willamette Avenue Chicago Street, Willamette neighborhood
Tags: Albany streets, Burkhart Street, chip seal treatment, street paving, Willamette Avenue Chicago Street, Willamette neighborhood
Biking in this heat? Not bleeding likely…
Written June 28th, 2021 by Hasso Hering
Getting a bike ride in during the Northwest’s record heat wave has been just about impossible. I managed it just one day, Saturday morning down in Jacksonville.
Where courtesy and common sense combine
Written June 14th, 2021 by Hasso Hering
For years, there’s been a bike lane on First Avenue in downtown Albany. But the lane disappears at Lyon Street, leaving motorists and the occasional cyclist to work out a traffic pattern on the spot.
Posted in: Bicycling, Commentary
Tags: Albany traffic, bike lanes, First and Lyon, intersections, vanishing bike lanes
Tags: Albany traffic, bike lanes, First and Lyon, intersections, vanishing bike lanes
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On a short bike ride along the coast north of Yachats, I ducked into Smelt Sands State Park. There, a volunteer with the Cape Perpetua Collaborative was patiently waiting in a stiff cold breeze, ready to tell visitors about the reach of the Pacific Ocean behind her back.
Tags: Cape Perpetua, Cape Perpetua Collaborative, Oregon marine reserves, Smelt Sands State Park