After Christmas, with not much going on, I reported on an unusually shaky bike rack at Albany Station. On Thursday I went by there again and guess what: The rack had been not just fixed, but fixed in a way to make it unlikely to need repairs again.
The mysterious case of the missing bolts
Written December 27th, 2019 by Hasso Hering
Momentous things may be going on around the world, but you won’t read about them here. Instead, let’s zero in on a shaky bike rack at Albany Station.
City may seek grants for station restroom
Written December 2nd, 2019 by Hasso Hering
The details are still undecided, but if the city council follows through on the general sentiment it showed on Monday, Albany Station may finally get a public restroom accessible around the clock.
Council to hear proposal for depot restroom
Written November 27th, 2019 by Hasso Hering
Albany Station may be in for a useful addition — a new public restroom — if the city council and ODOT can agree on the details.
At Albany Station, waiting for a train…
Written February 6th, 2019 by Hasso Hering
[youtube video=”TPO7ZjJc6is”] Albany once was served by 50 passenger trains a day. Now there are six. But that’s still better than nothing, I’m thinking as I’m waiting for Cascades Train 507 to arrive from Portland Tuesday night.
Costly pathway turns into trashy walk
Written January 22nd, 2019 by Hasso Hering
Sometimes you get the feeling it makes no sense to spend big money on public improvements as long as vandals and vagrants remain free — and motivated, if that’s the right word — to ruin them with spray paint and trash.
Posted in: Commentary
Tags: Albany Station, Pacific viaduct, Station-Swanson path, vagrancy, vandalism
Tags: Albany Station, Pacific viaduct, Station-Swanson path, vagrancy, vandalism
Train cutback blamed on COVID-19
Citing COVID-19 as the cause, the Oregon Department of Transportation announced that passenger train service at Albany Station would be reduced starting today (March 21).
Tags: Albany Station, Amtrak Cascades, COVID-19, train cutback