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?
Dark corner: City working to get it lit
Written November 29th, 2019 by Hasso Hering
A question about a poorly lighted South Albany intersection, potentially dangerous to pedestrians using the crosswalk these dark winter nights, has not fallen on deaf ears at City Hall. Instead, Albany Public Works is working on a fix.
Posted in: Commentary, News
Tags: Albany Public Works, Albany streets, Geary Street, Grand Prairie Road
Tags: Albany Public Works, Albany streets, Geary Street, Grand Prairie Road
Albany talks bond issue, utility fee for streets
Written August 26th, 2019 by Hasso Hering
There’s a good chance the Albany City Council will ask voters in 2020 to approve a bond issue to pay for reconstructing half a dozen streets including Albany Avenue. Voters might also be asked to decide on an extra monthly utility fee to pay for street maintenance and repairs.
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Tags: Albany streets, infrastructure costs, street bond, street maintenance
Tags: Albany streets, infrastructure costs, street bond, street maintenance
Albany searches for street funding ideas
Written June 10th, 2019 by Hasso Hering
[youtube video=”r2l_p-XQfoU” rel=”0″] Bouncing along one of central Albany’s old residential streets, especially on a bike like in the video here, makes you wonder if the city will ever have the means to make repairs, now decades overdue. Monday’s council work session does not signal a solution any time soon.
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Tags: Albany streets, Street funding, street maintenance, street utility fees
Tags: Albany streets, Street funding, street maintenance, street utility fees
Phase 2: Hill Street contract awarded
Written February 24th, 2019 by Hasso Hering
More than half a mile of Hill Street in southeast Albany will be rebuilt this year, and the cost is substantially less than city engineers had feared.
The old sources confirm: No ‘s’ on Lyon
Written February 3rd, 2019 by Hasso Hering
Though not, admittedly, among the burning issues of the day, how to spell Albany’s Lyon Street is occasionally in dispute. People tend to spell it with an “s” at the end of Lyon, but the “s” does not belong there.
A street project in West Albany: Ninth
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.
Tags: Albany streets, Ninth Avenue