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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 […]
On the ‘riverwalk’ and looking around
The wooden “riverwalk” under the Ellsworth Street Bridge is as good a place as any on Albany’s Dave Clark Path to stop the bike and look around. So that’s what I did for a few minutes on Saturday night. Here’s the result: What else is there to say about the Clark Path, where the bike […]
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