For a decade now, the vacant lot at 370 Burkhart St. S.E. in Albany has made an appearance on this website just about once a year. Maybe one of these years something will actually happen there.
Behold this new RR crossing: Nice job!
Written November 5th, 2024 by Hasso Hering
On this election day in 2024, everybody is going to be interested in how it went and won’t be looking here. So let me report on something slightly less significant.
Posted in: Bicycling, Commentary, News, Trains
Tags: Burkhart Street, Portland & Western, railroad, Willamette neighborhood
Tags: Burkhart Street, Portland & Western, railroad, Willamette neighborhood
If you like trains, here’s something for you
Written October 20th, 2021 by Hasso Hering
There’s a little paved path across the old Oregon Electric Railway tracks at Burkhart Street in Albany. It’s on one of my bike routes through town, and I spent a few minutes there on October 8, trying to decipher the lettering that graffiti artists had left on the cars.
Posted in: Bicycling, Commentary, Trains
Tags: Albany crossings, Burkhart Street, pedestrian crossings, Portland & Western, rail crossings, Railroads
Tags: Albany crossings, Burkhart Street, pedestrian crossings, Portland & Western, rail crossings, Railroads
Behold ‘new’ streets in this old neighborhood
Written June 30th, 2021 by Hasso Hering
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
Tags: Albany streets, Burkhart Street, chip seal treatment, street paving, Willamette Avenue Chicago Street, Willamette neighborhood
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On Burkhart Street, big old tank is gone
For years a big and abandoned concrete reservoir, once part of the Albany water system, dominated the otherwise empty lot at 370 Burkhart St. S.E. Now the tank is gone, and new owners are talking of developing the lot.
Tags: Burkhart Street, demolition, land use, water reservoir