With the summer over, afternoon traffic congestion on Highway 20 ahead of Albany’s Ellsworth Street Bridge has made its seasonal comeback. There are ways to make it less annoying, but none of them has yet been taken.
A dubious idea for the Lyon Street Bridge
Written August 15th, 2024 by Hasso Hering
The Lyon Street Bridge across the Willamette River has a bike lane and a raised sidewalk, each 6 feet wide. The City of Albany is contemplating a plan to combine them as a 10-foot wide multi-use path, the point of which is hard to see.
Posted in: Bicycling, Commentary, News
Tags: Ellsworth Street bridge, Lyon Street bridge, multi-use path, ODOT Community Paths
Tags: Ellsworth Street bridge, Lyon Street bridge, multi-use path, ODOT Community Paths
Work on Ellsworth Bridge: Here’s an update
Written July 22nd, 2024 by Hasso Hering
On weekends and during the daytime on weekdays, it’s hard to see how much work remains to be done in the project to raise the height clearance of Albany’s Ellsworth Street Bridge.
Looking around on the Ellsworth bridge
Written April 27th, 2024 by Hasso Hering
You may not notice this when you just drive across the Ellsworth Street Bridge. But work on raising the height clearance — unseen by daytime traffic — is actually going on.
Posted in: Bicycling, Commentary, News
Tags: bridge clearance, Ellsworth Street bridge, historic bridge, Willamette River
Tags: bridge clearance, Ellsworth Street bridge, historic bridge, Willamette River
What happened to ‘nine to five’?
Written April 9th, 2024 by Hasso Hering
Most weekday afternoons, traffic bunches up on the way into Albany via the Ellsworth Street Bridge on Highway 20. But sometimes I’m puzzled by the time of day when congestion starts. The photo with this story was taken on the afternoon of April 4. This was a Thursday, and it was 4 minutes past 4 […]
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Tags: 9 to 5, congestion, downtown Albany, Ellsworth Street bridge, Highway 20, peak hour timing, peak hour traffic, work hours
Tags: 9 to 5, congestion, downtown Albany, Ellsworth Street bridge, Highway 20, peak hour timing, peak hour traffic, work hours
New date for Ellsworth bridge work: April 1
Written March 25th, 2024 by Hasso Hering
The long-anticipated night work to raise cross beams on the Ellsworth Street Bridge in Albany did not start Sunday night as ODOT had announced. Today, on Monday, ODOT explained why.
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Tags: cross beams, Ellsworth Street bridge, ODOT, raising clearance, Wildish Standard Paving
Tags: cross beams, Ellsworth Street bridge, ODOT, raising clearance, Wildish Standard Paving
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On Ellsworth Bridge, note the raised height
On Albany’s Ellsworth Street Bridge, construction work to raise the height clearance looked complete last week, at least to drivers crossing the bridge. But the job is not yet done.
Tags: Ellsworth Street bridge, height clearance, Wildish