Driving into Albany on the Ellsworth Street Bridge on Friday night felt different, somehow. Then I saw the reason: All the overhead lights on the bridge were out, plunging the deck into darkness cut only by the headlights on the truck.
Taking a walk on the Ellsworth Street Bridge
Written June 30th, 2021 by Hasso Hering
Take a walk some time on the Ellsworth Street Bridge across the Willamette River in Albany and you’ll notice a thing or two. Or maybe not, so let me point them out.
Posted in: Bicycling, Commentary, News
Tags: bridge repairs, Conde B. McCullough, Ellsworth Street bridge, ODOT, Willamette River
Tags: bridge repairs, Conde B. McCullough, Ellsworth Street bridge, ODOT, Willamette River
Biking across the Ellsworth Street Bridge
Written March 11th, 2021 by Hasso Hering
If you’re going to ride a bike around Albany for any length of time, sooner or later you’re going to want to cross the Willamette River.
Posted in: Bicycling, Commentary, News
Tags: Albany cycling, Ellsworth Street bridge, river crossings, Willamette River
Tags: Albany cycling, Ellsworth Street bridge, river crossings, Willamette River
When you wish for another lane, or bridge
Written August 22nd, 2020 by Hasso Hering
Most of the time, the 95-year-old Ellsworth Street Bridge on the Willamette River works just fine, but sometimes you wish it had another lane, or Albany had another bridge.
Posted in: Commentary, News
Tags: AA Towing, Albany bridges, Albany traffic, Ellsworth Street bridge, Highway 20, Wilco
Tags: AA Towing, Albany bridges, Albany traffic, Ellsworth Street bridge, Highway 20, Wilco
Bridge repair: How much and who pays
Written June 5th, 2020 by Hasso Hering
Here’s an odd little fact about Albany’s Ellsworth Street Bridge, now undergoing nighttime repairs. If you ignore inflation — wish you could? — dealing with damaged overhead beams is costing more than was paid to build the bridge nearly a century ago.
Message on bridges: The rest of the story
Written May 26th, 2020 by Hasso Hering
So what’s this bridge work that ODOT is telling us about on message boards at Albany’s two Willamette River crossings? In short, it’s a matter of fixing damaged beams on the Ellsworth Street span.
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Tags: Conde McCullough, Ellsworth Street bridge, Lyon Street bridge, ODOT bridge repairs
Tags: Conde McCullough, Ellsworth Street bridge, Lyon Street bridge, ODOT bridge repairs
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ODOT adds cameras at key Albany junction
One of these days, and probably soon, drivers will be able to check before they start out if there’s congestion on Highway 20 at the junction with Spring Hill Drive in North Albany.
Tags: Albany-Corvallis Highway, Ellsworth Street bridge, ODOT, Spring Hill Drive, traffic camera, Trip Check