The answer is $1.1 million. And the question, posed by reader Gary Womack in an email a few days ago, was: ” I would also like to know how much money this bike path will be costing the taxpayers (me),so that a very few people can ride their bikes.”
Why we don’t charge cyclists more
Written July 8th, 2015 by Hasso Hering
Proposals to tax and even license bicycle owners and riders got nowhere in the 2015 Oregon legislature because they were bad ideas, too impractical even for lawmakers who usually don’t mind sticking their fellow citizens with higher fees.
Traffic beat: Our new “ovalabout”
Written April 21st, 2015 by Hasso Hering
Please check the update concerning the south bypass and Highway 34 at the bottom of this story. Things have been heating up on the traffic beat. On Monday and Tuesday motorists got stuck in, and complained about, heavy congestion between Corvallis and Albany, apparently brought on by construction work on the south bypass of Highway 34. And […]
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Tags: Highway 20, Highway 34, North Albany Road, Spring Hill roundabout, traffic
Tags: Highway 20, Highway 34, North Albany Road, Spring Hill roundabout, traffic
Hwy. 34 loses ‘safety’ label
Written July 17th, 2014 by Hasso Hering
There was good news and bad news — and then some more good news — in the latest announcement from ODOT concerning Oregon Highway 34 from Interstate 5 to the Corvallis Bypass.
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Due on 34: Protection from bad driving
Careless drivers and their potential victims will likely get some help in avoiding crashes on the notorious Highway 34 next year, especially between Corvallis and I-5.
Tags: Highway 34, ODOT, Oregon 34, Rick Little