Albany streets

Why the red pavement? The answer is here

Written July 31st, 2021 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 2 responses.

A reader asked about the red sections of pavement on an Albany street. Why are they there, she wanted to know.

Posted in: Commentary, News
Tags: Albany streets, chicanes, Marion Street, red intersections, traffic calming

Behold ‘new’ streets in this old neighborhood

Written June 30th, 2021 by Hasso Hering

Comments: no responses.

When you’re on a bike, the quality of the road surface below your tires is something you notice. And on the evening of June 28, the hottest day in recorded history in the Willamette Valley, the newly surfaced streets in Albany’s Willamette Neighborhood caught my attention.

Posted in: Bicycling, Commentary, News
Tags: Albany streets, Burkhart Street, chip seal treatment, street paving, Willamette Avenue Chicago Street, Willamette neighborhood

Bikes in traffic: A reader’s challenge accepted

Written January 15th, 2021 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 16 responses.

When you’re on a bicycle, how best to keep going north on Highway 99E when you come to the big Y junction with Santiam Highway? It’s easier than I thought.

Posted in: Commentary
Tags: Albany streets, bike lanes, bikes in traffic, Ninth and Geary, tricky junctions

A spiffy new road in order to add jobs

Written December 19th, 2020 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 4 responses.

If you like new pavement and modern street improvements such as “stormwater quality planters,” go and check out Lochner Road on the south side of Albany.

Posted in: Commentary, News
Tags: Albany streets, Lochner Road, Marion Street, North Santiam Paving, Sno Temp

This road: Let’s spell it like we say it

Written July 13th, 2020 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 12 responses.

If you’re looking for a momentary diversion from politics, corona news, and Portland riots, how about this question: When did they change the spelling of North Albany’s Spring Hill Drive?

Posted in: Commentary
Tags: Albany streets, road names, Spring Hill

No longer puzzled by the height of stumps

Written May 18th, 2020 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 3 responses.

So why, the Question Man wanted to know, did they leave chest-high stumps when a crew felled roughly 20 street trees on Albany’s Ninth Avenue in April? Why not saw the trunks off near the ground?

Posted in: Uncategorized
Tags: Albany streets, K&E Excavating, Ninth Avenue, street trees

A street project in West Albany: Ninth

Written April 18th, 2020 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 10 responses.

Some time this spring or summer, a contractor for the city will start tearing up the west end of Ninth Avenue in Albany in order to rebuild it. Assuming, that is, that the caronavirus outbreak doesn’t change the plans.

Posted in: Commentary, News
Tags: Albany streets, Ninth Avenue