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‘Permanent’ shortcut will stay fenced shut

Written March 27th, 2024 by Hasso Hering
Comments: 14 responses.

Neighbors now don’t have to worry that the city will reopen the handy shortcut from 36th Avenue to Ermine Street near South Albany High School.

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All that talk about ‘boulevards’: Why?

Written February 24th, 2022 by Hasso Hering
Comments: 13 responses.

Members of the Albany Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Commission keep talking about possible “bike boulevards” on selected residential streets. And I’m wondering why.

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City panel wants to pursue ‘bike boulevards’

Written January 30th, 2022 by Hasso Hering
Comments: 12 responses.

The idea of “bike boulevards” keeps coming up at monthly meetings of Albany’s Bicycle and Pedestrian Commission even though the first proposal of this kind last year, on Madison Street, died for lack of neighborhood interest.

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A future bikeway and what to call it

Written December 30th, 2021 by Hasso Hering
Comments: 4 responses.

Turns out that contrary to what it says on Benton County’s project website, we can keep calling the proposed Albany-Corvallis Bikeway by that name or something like it.

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Just how is this a ‘permanent’ path?

Written August 19th, 2019 by Hasso Hering
Comments: 18 responses.

Ten years ago, the Albany City Council closed a short bike and walking path near South Albany High School to cut down on teenagers causing trouble. The city says neighbors are still grateful, but the continued closure appears to violate a city law passed in 1975.

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