curb ramps

Elm Street: Pavement, ramps and history too

Written July 23rd, 2025 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 11 responses.

Twenty-five years after rebuilding Elm Street in West Albany, the city plans to renew the pavement on this former section of Oregon Highway 99.

Posted in: Bicycling, Commentary, News
Tags: ADA, curb ramp requirements, curb ramps, Elm Street, Highway 99, overlay, pavement, West Albany

Hospital street to get ‘quick overlay’

Written July 20th, 2025 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 5 responses.

Potholes being a constant local concern, in February I wrote about the rocky shape of Sixth Avenue in front of Albany General Hospital. So I was interested to see what the City of Albany has just posted on social media.

Posted in: Bicycling, Commentary, News
Tags: Albany General Hospital, curb ramps, Elm Street overlay, Facebook, paving, potholes, Sixth Avenue

Compliant curb ramps: Useful but not cheap

Written March 26th, 2025 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 4 responses.

Did you know there was a name for those yellow panels of little bumps on curb ramps that hurt your feet when you wear shoes with thin soles? I didn’t. Not until I came across the term and looked up what it meant.

Posted in: Bicycling, Commentary, News
Tags: ADA compliance, curb ramps, Department of Transportation, ODOT, settlement agreement, truncated domes

Albany’s plan for ADA-accessible streets

Written January 12th, 2023 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 7 responses.

When a man named Humphrey poured the concrete for the curb at East Fifth and Railroad streets in Albany in 1910, he could not foresee that 80 years later Congress would pass the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Posted in: Bicycling, Commentary, News
Tags: ADA, ADA evaluation, Albany streets, Americans with Disabilities Act, curb ramps, sidewalks