On Saturday I figured the Oregon gas tax referendum drive might be gathering signatures outside the Albany City Hall, near where the farmers’ market was going on.
Traffic cameras at four Albany intersections yielded 747 tickets last month, the vast majority of them for speed violations. The average speed on all those tickets was 35.1 miles an hour.
Next week we may find out whether Albany customers of Pacific Power will be billed, and how much, for part of the cost of the city’s Waterfront Project.
Albany’s photo radar program in the school zone on North Albany Road hit a bump Wednesday when two speeding tickets were dismissed because the city could not prove that the cameras were working properly.
When Albany officials and consultants drew up the South Albany Area Plan in 2012, nobody objected to the notion of running a 10-foot-wide paved bike path through the Mennonite Village, the retirement community off Columbus Street.
This is the time of year when Albany bicycle riders must sometimes use the driving lanes because the designated bike lanes are blocked by piles of autumn leaves.
Council upholds Oak Creek Trail requirement
On Monday night the Albany City Council heard about two hours of public testimony that building a public “multi-use path” in the Mennonite Village retirement community was a bad idea. Then the council voted to require the path to be built anyway.
Tags: Mennonite Village, Oak Creek oop Trail