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Albany’s mini roundabout: Taking a look

Written September 3rd, 2025 by Hasso Hering

Albany’s newest traffic roundabout — actually a “mini roundabout” —  was finished and opened on Friday before Labor Day. After reading a slew of Facebook comments about this change in the traffic pattern, I paid it a visit Wednesday night.


No cameras for top crash intersections

Written November 21st, 2024 by Hasso Hering

Safety has been given as the reason for Albany’s red-light cameras and photo radar campaign. So you might think the cameras would be deployed at the intersections with the most crashes. But that’s not the case.


Decades of crashes without a permanent fix

Written May 7th, 2023 by Hasso Hering

More or less on a regular basis, tall vehicles have hit the trestle on First Avenue in Albany since at least the 1960s. Despite efforts to prevent them, the crashes continue.


 
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