In Albany, the best county road for a bike ride close to town is Bryant Drive.
My neck hurts and there are bruises in various places, but I don’t want to waste a minute complaining before warning everybody of a potentially deadly hazard on Albany’s Dave Clark Riverfront Path.
Everybody has to take some time off now and then. Which I did this week and got out of town.
Well, what do you know! The bike trap at the Queen Avenue railroad crossing has been eliminated. It’s smooth sailing now, or rather riding.
One of the many upsides of living in Albany is that, even on the bike, you’re never more than a few minutes from the farm fields outside of town.
What happened this morning, Friday, April 10, 2026, at the railroad crossing on Albany’s Madison Street? In short, a man survived a collision with a train.
What should we call it instead?
It’s too late now, probably. Too late for what? For changing the name of Talking Water Gardens, the constructed wetlands that were supposed to cool and further treat the already treated wastewater coming out of the Albany-Millersburg sewage treatment plant.
Tags: bicycling, parks, Talking Water Gardens, wastewater treatment