If you get down low and close, this is what you see of the street in front of Albany General Hospital.
Albany General Hospital lies in the 1000 block between Sixth and Seventh avenues. Seventh is a fine street with good pavement, so how come there are big craters in Sixth?
On a bike ride Wednesday afternoon, I happened to be in front of the hospital on Sixth when I noticed a particularly well developed pothole. It’s in the middle of the street, so the bike did not hit it.
But motor vehicles must hit it all the time. How else could it have gotten so deep?
Ambulances usually enter the emergency department’s driveway from the other side, from Seventh. But when they leave again and take Sixth, any patients in back might get quite a jolt. (Well, probably not since Albany ambulance crews presumably know where the big potholes are and how to avoid them.)
Still, you’d think that, keeping sick people in mind, streets around hospitals would be kept clear of unnecessary bumps.
Judging by the many pavement patches, the city street crew does quite a bit of work in front of Albany General. But for some mysterious reason, the potholes on Sixth keep coming back. (hh)
Here’s the more conventional view of the pavement on Sixth in front of the hospital.
While Albany Fire crews may be able to memorize the pothole map of Albany, woe to the scores of other departments and civilians that dare to tread on Sixth avenue. Or any other Albany street, for that matter.
The best practice in this situation is to call-in the DOGE-Bag squad. Investigate Albany’s Road/Transportation Unit for fraud, waste and abuse. Fire some folks too. Albany needs an Elon doppelganger to come in and kick some Albany Bureaucratic Butt.
How about an entire AUDIT! Start with the water dept. software upgrade that they allegedly claim was “because the people wanted it”. Name 3 people that aren’t tied in with the city or the “soft/junkware company. How many extra man hours were needed to try to cover that fiasco? The old software emailed a confirmation that your payment was received/credited. The new software doesn’t. Who asked for that? NEXT- the real estate transactions.
Yes 100%
It makes one wonder what condition the streets are in where our mayor/city council types live. That includes dept. heads, city attorney & manager etc.
I know City Councilor Newton-Azorr lives about 2 blocks from that pothole in the picture Hasso took. (She happens to live down the block from me.)
it makes me wonder about the next election. with the success trump is having with doge and common sense, republicans promising the same with albany might just run albany thru the wringer next! that will be a laughing matter in the 1st degree! imagine the waste that can be exposed and disposed of in the city of albany :) saddle-up albany, i see it in the future.
That road is one of our worst. Others are 3rd St between traffic circle and Madison. Anther is road going to Albany Sanitation and recycling area. The water billing thing was awful. There were many other companies with better track records. It is like there was no research. I still have a problem about length of time to pay bill and I did a little research. Eugene is 20 days, Portland 21 days, Corvallis 25 days, Salem 25 days and Junction City theirs is due last Friday of every month. What is ours 10 days or less depending on mail.
I personally have been in contact with both city and hospital facilities about the road I helped pick up a person wheeling his way across the street to get to hospital and fell into that pothole
City( of course said hospital owns part of street from bump). You would think they could find the money to fix the road next to hospital, I’m not going to at this time out the person I talked to at city, but just fix it and maybe in 30 days, I’ll bring it to council, with names, just fix it. Please
I can’t quite believe the city that the hospital owns part of road especially in front of hospital. I can see where the parking lot is at but not where the pothole is.
The people who can afford to live in North Albany have pristine streets and sidewalks and I don’t think I’ve ever seen a homeless person over there. I wonder why that is?
I see homeless people here in north Albany every day! I discovered a dead junkie in a parking lot here in 2023. Too late for Narcan. We also get no public art, few city parks, and horrible roads. I don’t think I’ve seen more than a few Albany city cops here in the last 5 years either. Kids driving cars with no mufflers race around all day and night with total impunity. The assumption seems to be that we are all rich, and Benton county will handle everything anyway. Now we get to enjoy duplexes, triplexes and apartment complexes built next to the beautiful semi-rural custom homes we spent a lifetime working to afford. Yay! Plus there’s the fun 30 minute traffic jam between North Albany and EVERYTHING else, including the ER. Yay!