My bike leans against fencing on this new “boardwalk” in Monteith Riverpark Friday evening.
There was still a section of concert fencing across a new path in Monteith Riverpark Friday. It didn’t necessarily keep people from getting to the riverbank, but why keep a fence there at all?
Like others before me, I walked around the fencing Friday because I wanted to see just where I’d end up if I went beyond the end of this short “boardwalk,” one of the additions to the riverpark in its recently completed renovation.
I invite you to come along:
This section of new path in Monteith Park sure makes it more convenient to get down to this part of the beach at the confluence of the Calapoooia and Willamette rivers.
I would guess that it also makes the undeveloped patch of riverside brush between the park and the rivers more accessible and perhaps inviting to unauthorized campers.
As for that unexplained but in effectual fencing, it is obviously temporary. Maybe it will be gone by the time you go down there to check it out. (hh)
The fencing is up for the concerts that parks and recs put on in the Park. They’ve done that for many years. Doesn’t make sense to put it up and take it down each week so they leave it up. Simple as that. Not everything is a conspiracy theory.
Funny. This comment section truly is a playground for Hasso’s buddies Shadle and Brock. Selective censorship at its finest.
The fence for concert goers makes sense and not sense as they could just bypass it and this way destroy the lawn.
My guess on the fence is that it is there to block 4 wheel vehicle traffic from zipping into this somewhat protected area.
I think the most recent plan includes a boardwalk to an reparian area near the river. There was talk about easy access for human powered watercraft.
https://www.albanyoregon.gov/cara/albany-waterfront-project
The park is complete. That 30-foot “boardwalk” is all there is in the boardwalk department.
So, the city doesn’t want people near their 20 million dollar stage; that explains the fence. But, why extend the fence so it blocks the boardwalk that they spent money to build?: A- ha, to hinder homeless people from camping by the river (the city would not want to help the homeless, of course) and to keep the kiddies at the converted-to-a-kiddie-park Monteith Park from getting to the river’s edge.