Sixth Avenue in front of Albany General Hospital on Saturday night. The city plan to improve the pavement there Monday.
Potholes being a constant local concern, in February I wrote about the rocky shape of Sixth Avenue in front of Albany General Hospital. So I was interested to see what the City of Albany has just posted on social media.
“Heads up if you’re parking at the hospital Monday,” the city’s Facebook page said. “We’re doing a quick overlay at the Sixth Ave[nue] entrance of Samaritan Albany General Hospital to improve the road surface.”
This looks like one of those patch jobs the city’s street maintenance crew has been doing each summer on a few streets where the pavement is particularly bad. As has been explained, these patches don’t rebuild the street but make the driving surface tolerable until the city can afford a longer-lasting reconstruction.
The work on Sixth Avenue in front of the hospital may take a couple of days, according to the post, and will require people to take a detour via Seventh to reach the hospital parking lots.
A much bigger street project is in the offing in that west Albany neighborhood. On July 1, the city opened bids for a pavement overlay and curb ramp reconstruction project along the length of Elm Street from Fifth to 16th Avenue.
Knife River, Tangent, submitted the apparently lowest of six bids at $1,205,427.
The bid documents describe the project this way: “This project includes approximately 3,200 linear feet of 2-inch asphalt grind-inlay, replacement of approximately 68 curb ramps, replacement of approximately 600 feet of 30-inch storm drain, and related appurtenances.”
The city council has not yet awarded the contract. But when it does, the work must be completed by July 31, 2026.
The pavement on Elm Street is not bad. It’s being replaced in keeping with the city’s policy of maintaining heavily used streets so they don’t go bad and then have to be reconstructed later at much greater cost. (hh)
Back in February, I crouched down to get a closeup of this super pothole in front of the hospital on Sixth.
Maybe some of the 25 million CARA spent on downtown Albany and Water Street and Monteith Stage would have fixed Albany’s streets. Ya’ think?!? By the way, I haven’t heard one word about whether the new stage and the concerts are a success or not. The first concert was covered in D-H by Penny, the editor, and she didn’t mention the size of the crowd. The one picture she published did not give a clue.
Hey, Hasso’s followers, go ahead and pile on and say I am not positive enough or constructive enough. In advance, I say to you, “Go to Heck!”
What did you complain about before CARA was around? Just wondering.
Sorry, where do you get that? CARA has been “around” since 2001. Where is there a complaint about CARA from before that year? (I had typed 2021 but corrected it when the goof was pointed out.)
I go on the section of 3rd street between Main and Madison at least 5 times a week. It has got to be the worst in all of Albany — granted that the pot hole in front of the Hospital (I fell into that once also) is worse. I also go on Elm street from the hospital to Queen once a week and find it not noticeably bad at all. Wish we could get our priorities straight. On the up side, the rebuild of Washington is really nice.
Stunning, I have been to council and spoke about the 6 th street in front
Of hospital , and found out the legal status of the street that is in extremely bad shape, everyone knows it so in true fashion the city’s going to do a quickly
Overlay for the good of all, here’s where it gets tricky, they replaced a water line in this area, so technically they need to replace not overlay asphalt, I in my development years could never replace in ground interstructure without replacing asphalt, especially if it’s going to look like and ride like Madison st between 2nd and 6 th street, money is there, please do the right thing. NO QUICKYS
I challenge mayor Johnson to look into this, but he probably won’t