Almost five years ago, the Albany City Council turned down a recommendation to put stop signs on Elm Street at 12th Avenue. Now the subject has popped up again.
For many years, a section of 12th Avenue in West Albany was notorious for its plentitude of potholes. On Sunday I discovered that the City of Albany did something about it.
A line of new fence posts drew my attention this week along a section of the Albany-Santiam Canal. It brought to mind the stories I did six years ago about this very spot.
Albany’s street trees were not on my mind on Jan. 28, but then I came across this broken specimen on southwest 12th Avenue, just west of Takena Street.
Stop signs at this intersection, 12th Avenue and Elm Street in West Albany, were the subject of a brief discussion by the city council Monday. For a summary, take a look at the video below. Albany streets seem to sprout stop signs on every other block. The decision against adding two more on Elm at […]
How street maps can leave you lost
Albany’s system of street mapping sometimes defies common sense, which explains why in a recent story I wrote a confusing description of the footbridge you see in the photo above.
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