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.
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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
If you like trains, here’s something for you
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.
Tags: Albany crossings, Burkhart Street, pedestrian crossings, Portland & Western, rail crossings, Railroads