Bicycling

This is what you call a light lunch

Written June 17th, 2023 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 2 responses.

“Have you noticed the osprey on the midspan light of the Lyon Street bridge?” the email from Patrick Hagerty asked. “It is there regularly eviscerating the catch of the day.”

Posted in: Bicycling, Commentary, News
Tags: Lyon Street bridge, osprey, Willamette River

Hub City Village: When it aims to be done

Written June 16th, 2023 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 6 responses.

Now that construction on Hub City Village has started, when will this planned unit development of 27 small houses in Albany be ready for otherwise homeless people to move in?

Posted in: Bicycling, Commentary, News
Tags: Creatring Housing Coalition, homeless, Hub City Village, Pacific Boulevard, Salem Avenue, Stacey Bartholomew, tiny houses, Waverly Drive

Preparing Albany’s camp site for homeless

Written June 14th, 2023 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 22 responses.

A bike ride Wednesday took me past the vacant lot at 503 Ninth Ave. S.E., where the city of Albany plans to have homeless people camp if they can’t or won’t go to a shelter.

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Tags: city camping sites, homeless, homeless camps, Ninth and Jackson, Oregon homeless

All those containers: Why they are there

Written May 24th, 2023 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 17 responses.

So what’s the story behind all those shipping containers sitting in a cordoned-off section of the Albany Fred Meyer parking lot?

Posted in: Bicycling, Commentary, News
Tags: Albany store, Fred Meyer, Kroger, parking lot, remodeling, shipping containers

Spreading the word on bridge, road work

Written May 20th, 2023 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 5 responses.

Getting out of Corvallis on the new Van Buren Bridge should be a breeze — in about four years. That’s how long ODOT figures it will take to complete construction of the $85 million project, which is starting now.

Posted in: Bicycling, Commentary, News
Tags: bridges, Corvallis, Highway 20, highways, left turns, ODOT, Van Buren bridge, Willamette River

At Albany’s Lehigh Park, changes in store

Written May 17th, 2023 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 12 responses.

A reader in the Lehigh Neighborhood was intrigued by an online poll about changes the Albany Parks Department has in mind for the playground in the neighborhood park.

Posted in: Bicycling, Commentary, News
Tags: Albany parks, friendship swing, Lehigh Park, omnispin, play equipment, sensory playground

Bike bills in the legislature: Taking a look

Written May 17th, 2023 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 6 responses.

Last week I was glad to see that the road sign remembering Donald L. Stathos on this so-called “bikeway” between Medford and Jacksonville was still there. It made me wonder what this year’s session of the Oregon legislature had in store in connection with bikes.

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Tags: 1971 legislature, 2023 legislature, bicycle bills, Don Stathos, Oregon legislature, Stathos Bikeway