Right about here, on Albany’s Second Avenue S.E., is where the city council wants to install a radar speed display sign in the hope of slowing drivers down. But first, the city wants to have good data on average speeds there now.
Narrowing a traffic artery: Brilliant!
Written October 7th, 2017 by Hasso Hering
I’d like to know what Albany’s streetscape designers were thinking when they decided to put chokepoints on the the main downtown thoroughfare, already hard-pressed to handle traffic during busy parts of the day.
Eclipse gridlock? Well, not here
Written August 20th, 2017 by Hasso Hering
On the eve of the total solar eclipse, where was the massive influx of many thousands of tourists that some had predicted for the Albany area? Maybe those thousands were around somewhere, but I didn’t see them.
Stuck in traffic: Get used to it
Written November 22nd, 2016 by Hasso Hering
Stuck once again in slow-moving traffic on Albany’s main drag, I’m wondering if this is ever going to get any better. The answer is no, it won’t. Not in the foreseeable future anyway. Instead, we’re bound to get delayed more often just like drivers in far bigger towns.
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Tags: Albany highways, Albany traffic, Albany Transportation Improvement Plan, ODOT, traffic congestion
Tags: Albany highways, Albany traffic, Albany Transportation Improvement Plan, ODOT, traffic congestion
More signs to slow Spring Hill
Written May 25th, 2016 by Hasso Hering
More signs. That’s what Benton County will install to try to get traffic to slow down on Spring Hill Drive in the Albany city limits. Other steps to slow traffic might be more effective but would cost too much to install or maintain, the county concluded.
Traffic fixes: A couple of ideas
Written April 13th, 2016 by Hasso Hering
One of the advantages of living in a small town is supposed to be the lack of congestion. So how come in Albany we’re now spending so much time in stop-and-go traffic?
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Tough choice: Stop or roll through?
Like other residential districts of Albany before it, the Willamette Neighborhood now has sprouted a crop of new stop signs to slow down traffic. This may work, or it may not.
Tags: Albany traffic, Front Street, speed control, stop controls, stop signs, Willamette neighborhood