Asphalt has replaced rubber mats at the Queen Avenue railroad crossing in Albany.
Judging by their speed, motorists are finding Albany’s Queen Avenue railraod crossing much easier to navigate now that the pavement has been repaired.
For years the crossing of four tracks was notoriously bumpy. Last week the crossing was closed for three or four days while the surface was fixed. It took me a while, but on Thursday I finally got around to taking a look:
Both the Union Pacific and the Portland & Western railroads worked on the crossing during last week’s closure.
The UP reset its mainline track in new concrete. The P&W put down asphalt to make a new surface. across its three tracks.
This will not be the last work to be done there. ODOT plans to install new gates and improved pedestrian walks later on, perhaps next year or the year after that.
When that is done, Portland & Western plans to replace the new asphalt between the rails with concrete panels, according to plans announced earlier.
For now, though, going across those tracks is less bumpy than it was, for motor vehicles and bicycles too. (hh)
Probably smoother than the wacky job the city did on resurfacing Madison.
It felt just a bumpy as always to me.
It’s not completed. As Hasso correctly stated, “This will not be the last work to be done there. ODOT plans to install new gates and improved pedestrian walks later on, perhaps next year or the year after that.
When that is done, Portland & Western plans to replace the new asphalt between the rails with concrete panels, according to plans announced earlier.”
Thank you…I’m we didn’t comprehend it the first time. Spend more time addressing the lousy job done on Madison St.
Sorry – It is not “a lousy job.” It’s much better than it was. Period.
Start here: https://www.cityofalbany.net/streets
“Any job worth doing, is worth doing right”. I guess that doesn’t apply, right Ray?
No they are not smoother…
They may look it, but they still give your shocks a workout.
Arm in arm we laughed like kids
At all the silly things we did
But you can’t finish what you start
If this is love, it breaks my heart
You made me promises, promises
You knew you’d never keep
Promises, promises
Why do I believe all of your promises?