Albany traffic – Page 3

Suggestion: Make this bulb-out easier to see

Written March 17th, 2019 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 9 responses.

A citizen last month asked the Albany City Council to make one of the new Ellsworth Street bulb-outs easier for people in cars to see. So far though, nothing’s been done.

Posted in: Commentary, News
Tags: Albany traffic, Ellsworth and Ninth, Ellsworth and Seenth, Ellsworth traffic

A traffic change: Dotted line turns solid

Written December 13th, 2018 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 19 responses.

ODOT has followed through on changing an important lane marking on Ellsworth Street between Eighth and Ninth avenues. Now let’s see if Albany drivers get the hint.

Posted in: Commentary, News
Tags: Albany downtown, Albany traffic, Ellsworth Street, Highway 20, highway lane markings, ODOT, Oregon highways, solid white line, traffic control change

Cyclists at the ‘gore:’ What to do now?

Written December 3rd, 2018 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 13 responses.

That’s an awkward place for a bike lane to end, and apparently I’m not alone in thinking so. Someone made the same point to the Albany Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Commission.

Posted in: Bicycling, Commentary
Tags: Albany bicycling, Albany cycling routes, Albany traffic, Interstate 5, Knox Butte Road, ODOT

Speed sign on Second: Seeing no change

Written November 26th, 2018 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 3 responses.

If the experimental radar sign the Albany City Council caused to be installed on Second Avenue has had any effect in slowing traffic, the change is so small it is hard to detect.

Posted in: Commentary, News
Tags: Albany traffic, radar speed display signs, Second Avenue speed, Second Avenue speed study

Tough choice: Stop or roll through?

Written October 30th, 2018 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 11 responses.

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.

Posted in: Commentary, News
Tags: Albany traffic, Front Street, speed control, stop controls, stop signs, Willamette neighborhood

Traffic on 2nd: How much, how fast?

Written June 5th, 2018 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 15 responses.

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.

Posted in: Commentary, News
Tags: Albany traffic, radar speed display sign, SEcond Avenue, speeding

Narrowing a traffic artery: Brilliant!

Written October 7th, 2017 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 13 responses.

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.

Posted in: Commentary
Tags: Albany traffic, Bulbouts, Lyon Street, sidewalk extensions