Thursday was my first chance to take a look at the newly completed Van Buren Bridge across the Willamette River in Corvallis. It is a very handsome and useful bridge, not just for motorists but for walkers and people on bikes as well.
An surprising sight greeted me on a bike ride Tuesday. Here, you can see for yourself:
A week and a half after being installed, the school zone lights on North Albany Road are back in the news — well, what passes for news on this site, anyway.
A Facebook post by the Albany Parks Department sent me to the Periwinkle Bikepath Friday to see what volunteers had done to clean up recent work by taggers on what might be the city’s most notorious graffiti wall.
Things might be wild on the international scene, but New Year’s week on the local front it usually dead. Now is no exception, so what does one do? One option is taking a little walk: Let’s hope things will pick up when people get back to work on Jan. 5. (hh)
Putting aside the perennial grumbling about noise and delays, we in Albany should be glad we still have functioning railroads to watch as they work, relieving highways of some of the burden of moving heavy freight.
Watching Train 11 as it crosses my path
Watching a train go by in close proximity is one of the rewards of riding a bike around Albany. You can stand and watch close to the tracks at pedestrian crossings such as the ones at Burkhart or Pine streets.
Tags: Albany Station, Amtrak, Coast Starlight, pedestrian crossings, Railroads, trains